On 7/20/11 5:18 PM, Marshall Schor wrote:
This suggests having a tool to make this "easy"; but also suggests that having
individual addon annotators packaged up as a "complete UIMA pipeline" may not be
very interesting to anyone.
To make this easy you can use maven. To fix the problem UIMA would need
to change
the way it loads classes. A proper OSGi integration should give a user
all the features
UIMA currently offers.
And I think we should even make an additional step and redesign UIMA a
bit, to
ease up the integration of AEs. In my eyes a simple use case where a
user needs
to run AEs made by different vendors in an AAE should be really easy. In
the end
the integration part is one of the reasons why someone at all decides to
use UIMA.
Is this right? If so, perhaps we should not release this osgi versions in the
addons at this time. That also would reduce the size of the distribution
considerably (about 100 MB of 150 MB is for the OSGi versions). In computing
this, I also noticed that the tagger osgi packaging was missing the 19.5 mb of
statistical models...
In my opinion we should not release all these OSGi bundles, because they
can only be loaded with this eclipse register buddy hack, and that is not
even part of the OSGi standard.
Jörn
