Sesame is a J2EE application that is contained in a servlet. This is generally deployed using Tomcat, but we are not going to use that or anything bloatware. Instead we will make use of Winstone, a lightweight application server.
Sesame is composed of two servlets. openrdf-sesame that is best served at /openrdf-sesame and that contain the HTTP REST API to the RDF store. Then there is openrdf-workbench (served from /openrdf-workbench) that is the UI to the server. You don't really need the UI but it's nice to get started and explore the server.
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First thing, download OpenRDF Sesame SDK
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Uncompress the downloaded archive. You should have a war directory containing:
openrdf-sesame-2.8.3/war/openrdf-sesame.war openrdf-sesame-2.8.3/war/openrdf-workbench.war -
Download winstone-boot.jar from the maven central. For those who don't know, maven is to Java what gem is for Ruby and npm for Node.
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Execute winstone with the two servlets:
java -jar .../winstone-boot-1.7.0.jar --webappsDir=.../openrdf-sesame-2.8.3/war --port=8080
You can now connect to [http://localhost:8080/openrdf-workbench]
Using RDF4j 2.1.6 (sesame successor), you can start both web apps, however if you try to create a new repository, you will face https://openrdf.atlassian.net/browse/SES-2240, which means that you basically cannot create a new repository and thus cannot really use RDF4j with winstone.