Chapter 10. Beanynizer

The Beanynizer is a plugin for the widely used ontology development environment Protégé and allows to generate JavaBeans and a JADE ontology file from a modelled ontology. It is very similar to the well known beangenerator plugin of JADE but offers some more flexibility regarding the generated code.

10.1. Installation

The description of the installation process assumes that you have successfully downloaded and installed Protégé 2.1 (or later). The installation of the plugin is simple. Extract the plugin.zip file from the beanynizer distribution into the protege/plugins directory. Make sure to use the “Use folder names” option (or similar) of your zip tool, such that a subdirectory protege/plugins/jadex.tools.beanynizer is automatically created. (You can also create this directory by hand before unzipping. In the end you should have a jadex_beanynizer.jar, a plugin.properties file, and some additional jar files in this directory.) Now you can start Protégé as usual. The HelpPlugins menu should contain an entry Jadex Beanynizer. Selecting this entry will just take you to the Jadex homepage. For the usage of the plugin see the next sections.