title: How To Provide A SPARQL Endpoint Using Tomcat 7.0.27
body: <p><br>
  So I got this webapp running on a tomcat 7.0.27 which manages a large RDF/Ontology model with Jena, and what I want to do is <strong>provide a SPARQL endpoint</strong> to enable clients to query this model. <br>Currently, there's a SOAP webservice where a SPARQL query can be embedded in a (SOAP) message, which is a legacy implementation I'm supposed to modernize.
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  How does one go about providing a SPARQL endpoint? It seems just an empty buzzword to me. What's the difference between a (SOAP) webservice and a SPARQL endpoint? I've been reading about <a href="http://www.joseki.org/">Joseki</a> and <a href="http://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/index.html">ARQ</a>, which apparently (in combination?) provide SPARQL endpoint functionality, but I'm not sure whether I need it, since most people who are talking about it on the web are using older tomcat versions (5/6).
  <br>Can somebody explain to me how to provide a SPARQL endpoint or nudge me in the right direction in terms of further resources?</p>