I'm all for it. This has been long missing in our tools chain. I can't begin to count how many times I've written/partially copied the helper class you describe below.
--Thilo On 3/22/2011 18:01, Jörn Kottmann wrote: > Any opinions/comments on this? Otherwise I will start working on it. > > Jörn > > On 3/21/11 12:54 PM, Jörn Kottmann wrote: >> 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 >
