TopBraid Composer, a component of TopBraid Suite, is a professional development tool for semantic models (ontologies). It is a complete editor for RDF(S) and OWL models, as well as a platform for other RDF-based components and services.
TopBraid Composer enables individual users and communities to collaborate effectively in developing Semantic Web ontologies. Key features of TopBraid Composer include:
TopBraid Composer is implemented as a collection of Eclipse plugins. This means that Composer is built on a solid platform with a large user base. Many other Eclipse plugins for editing other languages such as UML and XML exist, and therefore users can use a single tooling environment for many different modeling tasks. Furthermore, the foundation on the Eclipse plugin architecture means that developers can build additional services (such as custom visualization and reasoning engines) on top of TopBraid Composer. Composer provides new extension points to integrate custom-tailored components.
TopBraid Composer is built on top of Apache Jena. Jena is open-source and plugin developers will be able to exploit Jena-based services.
Finally, TopBraid Composer is shipped with various inference engines including SHACL and TopSPIN. Additional inference engines can be integrated and specified in the configuration preferences.
For more information about TopBraid Suite and TopQuadrant visit http://www.topquadrant.com. For additional information about TopBraid Composer, please visit http://www.topbraidcomposer.com