On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Tommaso Teofili
<tommaso.teof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've updated the website with some basic documentation about Clerezza-UIMA.
> See http://incubator.apache.org/clerezza/clerezza-uima
nice! thanks.
Two comments:
- It would be handy to have copy-and-pasteable
start("mvn:org.apache....")- commands to have all the neede bundles
installed (as far as they are not part of the launcher)
- maybe the titles of the section could link to the api-doc in the
maven generated site (which reminds me that this is still not
automatically deployed)
Reto
> I'm writing also a small getting-started for devs.
> Cheers,
> Tommaso
>
> 2011/9/2 Reto Bachmann-Gmür <m...@farewellutopia.com>
>
>> I don't mind. It would be great if a mini howto (with a list of bundle-uri
>> for each feature) could be attached.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Reto
>> On Sep 2, 2011 9:05 AM, "Tommaso Teofili" <tommaso.teof...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > If no one objects, I plan to commit the solution I proposed above by the
>> end
>> > of the day so that we can start from there for the first release and
>> > eventually change/better things along time.
>> > Cheers,
>> > Tommaso
>> >
>> > 2011/8/31 Tommaso Teofili <tommaso.teof...@gmail.com>
>> >
>> >> the dynamic-imports way was taken in consideration when talking with
>> other
>> >> UIMA mates, but I haven't inspected that possibility yet.
>> >> Thanks Reto.
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Tommaso
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> 2011/8/31 Reto Bachmann-Gmür <m...@farewellutopia.com>
>> >>
>> >>> Hi Tommaso
>> >>>
>> >>> Without knowing about the details I'm wondering if this extension
>> >>> class loader defined when instantiating the UIMA framework cannot be
>> >>> the Bundle-Class-Loader with the Bundle having a dynamic-import
>> >>> directive.
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm very much looking forward to the 'Getting started with Clerezza
>> >>> and UIMA' page :)
>> >>>
>> >>> Cheers,
>> >>> Reto
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Tommaso Teofili
>> >>> <tommaso.teof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> > Hi all,
>> >>> > the UIMA Addons 2.3.1 release happened on August 29th [1], this
>> release
>> >>> > didn't include the OSGi packaging for the annotators since the UIMA
>> >>> > community wants to provide full support to OSGi in the future while
>> the
>> >>> > addons OSGi packaging allowed only some basic use cases to be
>> executed.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > So far the bad news, the good news is that we can now include UIMA
>> >>> Addons
>> >>> > artifacts in our modules and that there is already a solution to face
>> >>> the
>> >>> > possible issues with class loading within a framework which is not
>> fully
>> >>> > OSGi compliant.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The UIMAFramework class creates an AnalysisEngines given its (XML)
>> >>> > descriptor that contains the FQN of the annotator class which is then
>> >>> > instantiated via Class.forName().
>> >>> > As far as I've experienced this is not good when working within OSGi
>> >>> > containers as each bundle uses a separate ClassLoader so, for
>> example,
>> >>> the
>> >>> > ClassLoader of the uima.utils bundle cannot see the
>> ClerezzaCASConsumer
>> >>> > class in uima.casconsumer module by default.
>> >>> > Luckily UIMA provides the possibility of defining an extension
>> >>> ClassLoader
>> >>> > when instantiating the framework.
>> >>> > So the idea is to define an ExtensionClassLoader which registers the
>> >>> > ClassLoaders of UIMA classes implementing AnalysisComponent interface
>> >>> (that
>> >>> > is the interface for Annotators and CAS Consumers) and use it within
>> the
>> >>> > creation of each AnalysisEngine.
>> >>> > Each bundle which has annotator classes can automatically register
>> its
>> >>> > classes (in the ExtensionClassLoader) using an OSGi Activator (a
>> >>> > UIMABundleActivator in the maven-bundle-plugin configuration) which
>> is
>> >>> > responsible for this task.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Obviously in the future releases of UIMA with full OSGi support the
>> >>> above
>> >>> > constraints could be safely removed.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > So my idea is to apply the above changes in order to allow easy
>> deploy
>> >>> of
>> >>> > custom UIMA pipelines within Clerezza. After that I think a brief
>> >>> 'Getting
>> >>> > started with Clerezza and UIMA' page would be useful.
>> >>> > Looking forward to your feedback.
>> >>> > Cheers,
>> >>> > Tommaso
>> >>> >
>> >>> > [1] : http://uima.apache.org/downloads.cgi
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
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