On 9/23/2012 2:29 PM, Steven Bethard (JIRA) wrote: > Steven Bethard created UIMA-2471: > ------------------------------------ > > Summary: add a jcasgen-maven-plugin (and m2e connector) > Key: UIMA-2471 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-2471 > Project: UIMA > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Steven Bethard > > > To properly use JCasGen in a Maven build, it would be nice to have a real > Maven plugin dedicated to JCasGen. The current workaround is a bit complex: > you have to use a uimaFIT wrapper of JCasGen plus the exec-maven-plugin and > the build-helper-maven-plugin: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/uima-user/201010.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > > This workaround also interacts poorly with Eclipse. There's no m2e connector > for the exec-maven-plugin, which means you have to add some configuration to > your pom: > > http://wiki.eclipse.org/M2E_plugin_execution_not_covered > > And then the plugin will be executed on every build - even if you haven't > modified they type system descriptor - which can be quite painful for large > type systems. > > Instead, I'd like to see a jcasgen-maven-plugin that allows you to write > something like: > > <plugin> > <groupId>org.apache.uima</groupId> > <artifactId>jcasgen-maven-plugin</artifactId> > <configuration> > <typeSystem>src/main/resources/TypeSystem.xml</typeSystem> > </configuration> > <executions> > <execution> > <goals> > <goal>generate</goal> > </goals> > </execution> > </executions> > </plugin> > > This plugin would also have a corresponding m2e connector that only runs > JCasGen when the type system file changed. > > I spent some time trying to put a first draft of these two things together. > Here's a jcasgen-maven-plugin: > > http://cleartk.googlecode.com/git/jcasgen-maven-plugin/ > > And here's an m2e connector for that plugin: > > http://cleartk.googlecode.com/git/jcasgen-m2e-connector/ > > If you'd like to try them out, I've deployed the jcasgen-maven-plugin to > Maven Central: > > http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ca%3A%22jcasgen-maven-plugin%22 > > And I've created an Eclipse update site for the m2e connector: > > http://cleartk.googlecode.com/git/jcasgen-m2e-connector/org.cleartk.plugin.jcasgen.m2e.repo/target/repository/ > > The pom XML snippet I gave above should work, except that the group is > "org.cleartk" instead of "org.apache.uima". > > Is there any interest in this? I'd be happy to help transition the code over > to Apache if others would like to see this as part of the UIMA distribution. Yes, this sounds like it would be a good additional tool to have (although I haven't had time to more than scan this email :-) ).
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