Replace Joseki with new REST API implementation #9
Description
Parliament's current REST API implementation is based on a heavily customized version of Jena's Joseki project. This code has been obsoleted by Fuseki, but migrating Parliament to Fuseki turns out to be more costly than it is worth. Re-customizing it would take a great deal of time, and then land us in the same difficult situation when we need to migrate to a newer version. Instead, the better approach is to write our own REST API implementation, because this is not particularly difficult.
Additional tasks that would go nicely with this effort:
- Conversion of the JSP pages to something more modern, like Angular
- Switch from Jetty to Spring Boot
- Incorporate the Map view for geospatial data from the DOMEX demo effort
- Incorporate the graph view (a la Analyst's Notebook) from the DOMEX demo effort
- Realize the primary benefit of ditching Joseki, i.e., update to the latest version of Jena ARQ/Core