Lotico recently gave me the opportunity to run a webcast presentation about RDF4J, which you can find on Youtube: Eclipse RDF4J - Working with RDF in Java.

Sesame 4 focuses on reduced boilerplate by removing checked exceptions and making use of new Java 8 features such as lambda expressions, the Stream API, and the AutoCloseable interface.

(This post was originally published on a previous incarnation of my website, at Rivuli Development. I am republishing here for historic interest.)

An explanation of the Sesame Binary RDF format.