Hi all,
developing/testing AEs inside eclipse is cumbersome because we do not
have launch support for AEs. To run an AE inside eclipse a small helper
class must be created which can instantiate the AE, supply it with CASes
and maybe serialize the processed CASes again.
To ease up this process we should have launch support which is capable of
instantiating an AE (or AAE), supply it with CASes and then serialize
the CASes
again. The launch support should also be able to run PEARS.
A first simple version of such a wizard could read all xmi files from one
folder and write the results to another folder.
Combined with the Cas Editor we would then have complete eclipse tooling
for
developing AEs, e.g. for making a simple hello world AE a user might
want to perform the following steps:
1. Write the AE, create the descriptor and type system
2. Import sample texts
3. View the imported texts
4. Run the AE over the imported texts
5. View added annotations
Jörn
