I am +1 to moving it back to the sandbox. It has been a long time since I have heard of it being used.
Thanks, Jeff On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 8:23 AM Richard Zowalla <r...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was looking at removing the Jackson dependencies in the OpenNLP core and > noticed that there is "opennlp-brat-annotator" which was moved from the > sandbox to the core in OPENNLP-867. > > Looking at the name finder resource, it's just a web service that doesn't > actually use the model parameter and doesn’t bring much value to the core > project. > I even doubt, that anybody is using it.There are no tests. > > Therefore, I would like to propose that this component be moved back to > the sandbox, as the module does not provide any value (IMHO) as it just > bloats our binary distribution. > If anyone actually useds it (from the core project), there is still the > possibility to build from sandbox or just copy the related code to their > projects. > > From my POV, these two classes do not offer much value. > > If we want to provide such a web service layer (in the future), we should > adhere to Jakarta EE standard and just bundle a WAR application, which can > be deployed in any EE application server to serve OpenNLP capabilities via > REST. > This could be started via a Maven plugin or in a standalone server > context. However, this has some other limitations in terms of resource > loading, but if there is interest, we could do that in a separate feature > request. > > Gruß > Richard
