Version Compatability

This page provides version compatability information for Knowtator and Protégé.

All versions of Knowtator require Java 5.0 (aka 1.5) or higher.

• Knowtator 1.7 requires Protégé 3.3 (build 430). Knowtator does not currently work with Protégé 3.4.
• Knowtator 1.6.1-beta and lower should use Protégé 3.2 (build 365)

It may be possible to run Knowtator with previous versions of Protégé - however we do not attempt to stay backward compatible with older versions of Protégé. In particular, when code is deprecated in favor of new code in the Protégé source, we update the Knowtator code accordingly. Knowtator has run fine on every version of Protégé that I have tried at the time I tried it including Protégé 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.1, and 3.2_beta releases. For versions between 3.1 and 3.2_beta (release 243) there is a bug that makes including one Protégé project into another one difficult. This is functionality that Knowtator depends on. If you use one of these versions, then there will be a few special instructions to get around this bug that will need to be performed once for each annotation project you create. Details are on the troubleshooting page. For the easiest possible installation, please use the most recent version of Protégé.