Re: [OWLAPI-developer] OntologyChangeListener

[Matthew H. <mat...@cs...>]

Hi Tim,

On 19 Mar 2008, at 23:17, Swanson, Tim wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owl...@li... [mailto:owlapi-
>> dev...@li...] On Behalf Of Matthew  
>> Horridge
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 7:38 AM
>>
>> The change listener just listens to OntologyChange events on the
>> manager - basically add/remove axiom changes and SetOntologyURI
>> changes.
>>
>> We will consider adding an OntologyManagerListener interface if you
>> would find that helpful.  This could be notified of changes when
>> ontologies are added or removed from a manager.
>>
>
> That would be great.
>
> I'm toying with the idea of an object that needs to be answerable to  
> all
> the content of a set of ontologies. That is, when the object is  
> queried,
> it needs to give an answer based on the content of those OWLOntology
> objects.
>
> For performance reasons, it shouldn't go back and re-process the
> ontologies every time it needs that information, so it stores what it
> needs in memory, and then listens to change events on the ontologies.
>
> However, what I would like to do is to simply give the object an
> OWLOntologyManager, and then say that the object is responsible for  
> any
> ontology managed by that manager. For that approach to be feasible,
> however, there would need to be something like an
> OntologyManagerListener.

o.k.  I've noted the request and will see what I can do :)

Cheers,

Matthew