Hello,
I've have some of the classpath related changes working on my local copy of
cTAKES. Here are a couple of things I discovered, that might save you some
time.
1. If referencing UIMA descriptors via name, make sure the descriptor name
attribute and the filename are the same (not including the .xml).
2. In DictionaryLookupAnnotatorUMLS.xml there is a reference to the UMLS
hsqldb via file path. To change it to class path, see the changes below
Original using file path:
--SNIP--
<nameValuePair>
<name>URL</name>
<value>
<string>jdbc:hsqldb:file:../dictionary
lookup/resources/lookup/umls2011ab/umls</string>
</value>
</nameValuePair>
--SNIP--
Updated to use class path if the lookup directory is in the
/src/main/resources/ (notice the use of 'res' as oppose to 'file' in the
connection string)
-SNIP-
<nameValuePair>
<name>URL</name>
<value>
<string>jdbc:hsqldb:res:lookup/umls2011ab/umls</string>
</value>
</nameValuePair>
--SNIP--
Thanks,
Brandyn
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From: Chen, Pei [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 4:22 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: ctakes-resources
I think Brandyn and others had a reasonable suggestion to use the name instead
of location paths in those pesky descriptor xml files- Assuming they're in the
classpath (placed in src/main/resources).
I'll take a stab at this later this week if I get a chance. But trunk *should*
compile now in case other want to start working on it. Apologies in advanced
if I broke someone's build at this point- it was a pretty large change...
Troy: If we do this correctly, this should be transparent (if not easier) to
end-users.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coarr, Matt [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 11:16 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: ctakes-resources
>
> Trying to distill some of the suggestions...
>
> Could we have two top level directories in svn -- main-modules and
> resource-modules? And then below resource-modules we could have
> dictionary-lookup-resources, lvg-resources, etc.
>
> * (ctakes svn trunk)
> * main-modules
> * core
> * clinical-documents-pipeline
> * dictionary-lookup
> * lvg
> * resource-modules
> * dictionary-lookup-resources
> * lvg-resources
>
> This means you could just checkout main-modules and keep it pretty small
> (mostly just code and descriptors). Then you can checkout "main-modules"
> a a few times to have different working directories without taking up too
> much space (perhaps a working copy for trunk development, another for
> clean copy of latest release, a third for an experimental branch, and perhaps
> a fourth for a branch to patch the last release). But they could all use the
> same resources.
>
> And ideally, most users and developers could pull those resources from the
> maven repository as an artifact, unless they were working on packaging up a
> new version of those resources.
>
> Matt
