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|  | <h1 class="title">Apache Jena Initialization</h1> | 
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|  | <p>Jena has an initialization sequence that is | 
|  | used to setup components available at runtime.</p> | 
|  | <p>Application code is welcome to also use this mechanism. This | 
|  | must be done with care. During Jena initialization, there can be | 
|  | visibility of uninitialized data in class static members.</p> | 
|  | <p>The standard initialization sequence is<br> | 
|  | Core -> RIOT -> ARQ -> TDB -> other (including jena text)</p> | 
|  | <p>The sequence from 0 to level 500 is the Jena platform | 
|  | initialization. Application may use the jena initialization mechanism and it is | 
|  | recommended to place initialization code above level 500.</p> | 
|  | <p>Initialization occurs when <code>JenaSystem.init()</code> is first called.  Jena ensures that this | 
|  | is done when the application first uses any Jena code by using class | 
|  | initializers.</p> | 
|  | <p>Application can call <code>JenaSystem.init()</code>.</p> | 
|  | <p>See <a href="jena-repack.html">notes on repacking Jena code</a> for how to deal | 
|  | with <code>ServiceLoader</code> files in repacked jars.</p> | 
|  | <h2 id="initialization-code">Initialization code</h2> | 
|  | <p>Initialization code is an implementation of <code>JenaSubsystemLifecycle</code> which | 
|  | itself extends <code>SubsystemLifecycle</code>.</p> | 
|  | <p>For use in the default initialization, the class must have a zero-argument | 
|  | constructor and implement:</p> | 
|  | <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="background-color:#f8f8f8;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-java" data-lang="java"><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#bbb">    </span><span style="color:#a2f;font-weight:bold">public</span><span style="color:#bbb"> </span><span style="color:#a2f;font-weight:bold">interface</span> <span style="color:#00f">JenaSubsystemLifecycle</span><span style="color:#bbb"> </span>{<span style="color:#bbb"> | 
|  | </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#bbb">        </span><span style="color:#a2f;font-weight:bold">public</span><span style="color:#bbb"> </span><span style="color:#0b0;font-weight:bold">void</span><span style="color:#bbb"> </span><span style="color:#00a000">start</span>()<span style="color:#bbb"> </span>;<span style="color:#bbb"> | 
|  | </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#bbb">        </span><span style="color:#a2f;font-weight:bold">public</span><span style="color:#bbb"> </span><span style="color:#0b0;font-weight:bold">void</span><span style="color:#bbb"> </span><span style="color:#00a000">stop</span>()<span style="color:#bbb"> </span>;<span style="color:#bbb"> | 
|  | </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#bbb">        </span><span style="color:#a2f;font-weight:bold">default</span><span style="color:#bbb"> </span><span style="color:#a2f;font-weight:bold">public</span><span style="color:#bbb"> </span><span style="color:#0b0;font-weight:bold">int</span><span style="color:#bbb"> </span><span style="color:#00a000">level</span>()<span style="color:#bbb"> </span>{<span style="color:#bbb"> </span><span style="color:#a2f;font-weight:bold">return</span><span style="color:#bbb"> </span>9999<span style="color:#bbb"> </span>;<span style="color:#bbb"> </span>}<span style="color:#bbb"> | 
|  | </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#bbb">    </span>}<span style="color:#bbb"> | 
|  | </span></span></span></code></pre></div><p>The code should supply a level, indicating its place in the order of initialization. | 
|  | The levels used by Jena are:</p> | 
|  | <ul> | 
|  | <li>0 - reserved</li> | 
|  | <li>10 - Used by jena-core</li> | 
|  | <li>15 - CLI Commands registry</li> | 
|  | <li>20 - RIOT</li> | 
|  | <li>30 - ARQ</li> | 
|  | <li>40 - Text indexing</li> | 
|  | <li>40 - TDB1</li> | 
|  | <li>42 - TDB2</li> | 
|  | <li>60 - Additional HTTP configuration</li> | 
|  | <li>60 - RDFPatch</li> | 
|  | <li>96 - SHACL</li> | 
|  | <li>96 - ShEx</li> | 
|  | <li>101 - Fuseki</li> | 
|  | <li>9999 - Default.</li> | 
|  | </ul> | 
|  | <p>Levels up to 500 are considered to be “Jena system level”, Application code | 
|  | should use level above 500.</p> | 
|  | <p>Fuseki initialization includes <a href="/documentation/fuseki2/fuseki-modules">Fuseki | 
|  | Modules</a> which uses <code>SubsystemLifecycle</code> | 
|  | with a different Java interface.</p> | 
|  | <h2 id="the-initialization-process">The Initialization Process</h2> | 
|  | <p>The process followed by <code>JenaSystem.init()</code> is to load all java <code>ServiceLoader</code> | 
|  | registered <code>JenaSubsystemLifecycle</code>, sort into level order, then call <code>init</code> on | 
|  | each initialization object. Initialization code at the same level may be called | 
|  | in any order and that order may be different between runs.</p> | 
|  | <p>Only the first call of <code>JenaSystem.init()</code> causes the process to run. | 
|  | Any subsequent calls are cheap, so calling <code>JenaSystem.init()</code> | 
|  | when in doubt about the initialization state is safe.</p> | 
|  | <p>Overlapping concurrent calls to <code>JenaSystem.init()</code> are thread-safe. | 
|  | On a return from <code>JenaSystem.init()</code>, Jena has been initialized at some point.</p> | 
|  | <h2 id="debugging">Debugging</h2> | 
|  | <p>There is a flag <code>JenaSystem.DEBUG_INIT</code> to help with development. It is not | 
|  | intended for runtime logging.</p> | 
|  | <p>Jena components print their initialization beginning and end points on | 
|  | <code>System.err</code> to help track down ordering issues.</p> | 
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