On Sep 28, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Steven Bethard <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have Eclipse set to "Build Automatically" and I'm constantly seeing tasks 
> running in the background in my Progress view that look like:
> 
> Compiling ctakes-type-system/target/generated-sources/...
> Refreshing ctakes-type-system/target/generated-sources/...
> 
> These tasks run, complete and then immediately start again, and as a result, 
> my Eclipse runs very slowly.

So this is still pretty crippling for me. The only way I have found to work on 
cTAKES right now is to apply the patch I proposed. But every time someone 
updates a pom.xml, I get merge conflicts and have to spend a bunch of time 
updating the patch.

Any suggestions of what I can do in the meantime?

Or any progress on reviewing the patch in 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-65?

Steve

> I think the solution is to create a real jcasgen-maven-plugin and a proper 
> m2e connector that only runs JCasGen when the type system has changed (or on 
> project import, or if target/generated-sources/jcasgen is missing, etc.).
> 
> What do you all think? Does this approach sound okay? I have a working plugin 
> and m2e connector, but I didn't want to just commit the change because if I 
> do, everyone will have to install the m2e connector in their Eclipse 
> environment. So I figured we should discuss it first.
> 
> Steve
> 
> P.S. For anyone was experiencing the same problem, could you try out the 
> following fix?
> 
> (1) Apply the attached patch to cTAKES trunk, which uses the 
> jcasgen-maven-plugin in the pom.xml files instead of the exec-maven-plugin 
> and build-helper-maven-plugin:
>    $ svn patch ctakes-jcasgen-maven-plugin.diff
> 
> (2) Open Eclipse, and refresh your cTAKES checkout. You should see a bunch of 
> errors in the Problems view that look like "Project configuration is not 
> up-to-date with pom.xml. Run Maven->Update Project or use Quick Fix." 
> 
> (3) Update the Maven projects as suggested.
> 
> (4) You should now see some new errors that look like: "Plugin execution not 
> covered by lifecycle configuration: 
> org.cleartk:jcasgen-maven-plugin:0.9.0:generate (execution: default, phase: 
> generate-sources)"
> 
> (5) Install the m2e connector for the jcasgen-maven-plugin. Go to Help -> 
> Install New Software…, add the update site 
> http://cleartk.googlecode.com/git/jcasgen-m2e-connector/org.cleartk.plugin.jcasgen.m2e.repo/target/repository/
>  and install the "m2e connector for JCasGen Maven plugin". Eclipse will 
> restart.
> 
> (6) Update the Maven projects again, as in step (3). The errors should all be 
> gone now.
> 
> Some things to try to make sure the fix worked:
> 
> (1) Check that  JCasGen is no longer be constantly running in the background. 
> Go to the Progress view and make sure that eventually you see just "No 
> operations to display at this time."
> 
> (2) Modify a few non-type-system files and and make sure (in the Progress 
> view again) that JCasGen does not run.
> 
> (3) Modify a type system, and make sure that JCasGen *does* run. An easy way 
> to check this is to change an annotation or feature name and make sure you 
> got some new compile errors.
> 
> 
> <ctakes-jcasgen-maven-plugin.diff>

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