I’m new to Pellet. How can I start?
Pellet’s basic functionality can be accessed through a command line interface using the class org.mindswap.pellet.Pellet. The Pellet distribution includes convenient shell scripts that will run this on most Java platforms. When run without arguments, it will produce a usage message describing available options and arguments.
To access this tool, download the latest release, unzip the distribution and get a command shell in the base directory of the distribution. If you are on a Windows platform, run the pellet.bat script. If you are on a Unix-like platforms (including a newer Mac), run the pellet.sh script.
For example, the following uses Pellet to classify the commonly referenced wine ontology
sh pellet.sh -s off -c TREE -if http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-guide-20040210/wine.rdfIf you are new to OWL-DL, you may find the OWL Guide helpful. If you are comfortable with OWL DL but new to the additional features of OWL 1.1, you may find the OWL 1.1 Overview helpful.
If you are interested in using the reasoner in a Java program, a good place to start is the collection of example code included in the examples directory of the Pellet distribution. It includes source code demonstrating the use of Pellet with Jena and OWL-API.