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Hi, at the University of Tor Vergata, the ART Group (http://ai-nlpart.info.uniroma2.it) is developing a Firefox extension for building/populating Semantic Web ontologies by getting content from traditional Web pages. The interaction with java is made possibile through the SIMILE java-firefox-extension project (http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Java_Firefox_Extension). At present time (2008/06) the extension will be released before or just after summer, and will be compatible with the recent Firefox 3 release (we're now in test phase and correcting some minor compatibility issues with FF3).
Semantic Turkey (this is the name of the Firefox extension), uses OSGi standard (through Apache Felix) so that its java layer can be extended with further functionalities. The client side can be extended through standard Mozilla extension technology, by declaring your extension as a Firefox extension with a dependence on Semantic Turkey.
An here it comes UIMA: one of the first Semantic Turkey extensions we're working in, is an UIMA based extension, allowing users to extract relevant content from web pages and use it to populate an existing ontology. Much of the needed technology is already up, we have just realized an extension for taking pointwise annotations (the original Semantic Turkey does something more similar to bookmarking) and we're now in the direction of including UIMA into the whole stuff...

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We should also keep in mind to not only analyze websites through this extension, it should be also possible to analyze xml/text files since they can be opened by firefox.

Semantic Turkey has been released. The official site is http://semanticturkey.uniroma2.it^{Image Added}. The UIMA extension is under active devlopment and will be released in the next months