Hi Robert, Are you planning to a process to build everything from source? Or were you planning to have a build process that combines the ctakes-*** jars with your custom application jars?
--Pei > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Spurrier [mailto:robert.spurr...@explorys.com] > Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 9:27 AM > To: dev@ctakes.apache.org > Subject: Creating Runnable .JARs From A Subset of cTAKES Maven Modules > > Good Morning! > > I am trying to use cTAKES tools on a distributed computing platform. I would > rather not ship the entire compiled cTAKES package (~1.5 Gb) out to the > shared cache when I only need a few annotators and their resources at a > time. > > I should first mention that I am not very familiar with Maven. I recently > upgraded cTAKES from v 2.5.0, where I was configuring smaller pipelines > using ant build files. This process was cumbersome however, and I can > appreciate the new modular Maven project layout. I just do not know how > to effectively utilize it in a way that is flexible. > > Does anyone have any advice on how I can package subsets of cTAKES > annotator modules and their dependencies/resources, so I can create > 'thinner' custom pipelines that are geared towards specific tasks? > > For example, I might ultimately want a pipeline .JAR that contains the tools > to > RegEx Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction measurements from free text. In > such a .JAR I would not need any of the dictionary resources or negation > annotators, so they could be excluded. > > It looks like I could create Maven assembly plugin descriptors to generate > these custom .JARs, but I would like to see if anyone here has any > advice/caveats before I pursue this route. > > > Thanks, > Robert Spurrier
