mindswap/owl/EntityFactory.java

	EntityFactory.java revision 2
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/*
 * Created on Dec 29, 2003
 *
 */
package org.mindswap.owl;

import java.net.URI;

import org.mindswap.owl.vocabulary.OWL;


/**
 * @author Evren Sirin
 *
 */
public class EntityFactory {
    private static OWLOntology factory = OWLFactory.createOntology();

    public static OWLIndividual createIndividual() {
        return factory.createInstance(OWL.Thing);
    }

    public static OWLIndividual createIndividual(URI uri) {
        return factory.createIndividual(uri);
    }

    public static OWLDataValue createDataValue(String value) {
        return factory.createDataValue(value);
    }

    public static OWLDataValue createDataValue(String value, String language) {
        return factory.createDataValue(value, language);
    }

    public static OWLDataValue createDataValue(Object value, URI datatypeURI) {
        return factory.createDataValue(value, datatypeURI);
    }

    public static OWLDataValue createDataValue(Object value) {
        return factory.createDataValue(value);
    }

    public static OWLClass createClass(URI uri) {
        return factory.createClass(uri);
    }

    public static OWLObjectProperty createObjectProperty(URI uri) {
        return factory.createObjectProperty(uri);
    }

    public static OWLDataProperty createDataProperty(URI uri) {
        return factory.createDataProperty(uri);
    }
}