level of concepts in ontology

ok. my current need is to calculate distance between "thing" and other classes. but OntTools.findShortestPath give me always 1.

(14 Oct '10, 04:41) fateme.hosseini

That's because everything in OWL is a subclass of Thing.

(14 Oct '10, 12:47) dorzey

what can i do to calculate level of concepts?

(17 Oct '10, 05:38) fateme.hosseini

"everything in OWL is a subclass of Thing." if i want to suppose only direct subclasses,then what can i do?

(21 Oct '10, 05:40) fateme.hosseini

If you are using Jena then you can use `OntClass.listSubClasses(boolean direct)'.

Others maybe able to help you more if you give an example of what you are trying to achieve in the original question.