This is copied from the source code of the Maven JCasGen plugin. Check out the full sources here:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/uimaj/trunk/jcasgen-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/apache/uima/tools/jcasgen/maven/JCasGenMojo.java --- args.addAll(asList("-jcasgeninput", typeSystemFile.getAbsolutePath(), "-jcasgenoutput", this.outputDirectory.getAbsolutePath(), "=jcasgenclasspath", classpath)); // run JCasGen to generate the Java sources Jg jCasGen = new Jg(); try { jCasGen.main0(args.toArray(new String[args.size()]), null, new JCasGenProgressMonitor(), new JCasGenErrors()); } catch (JCasGenException e) { throw new MojoExecutionException(e.getMessage(), e.getCause()); } --- - Richard On 19.09.2013, at 13:16, Eirini Psallida <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Richard! > > I created the XML file, thanks a lot. > Can you explain me a bit more how can i pass this XML to the JCasGen > programmatically? > > Eirini > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> you can generate a type system descriptor in Java (there are Java objects >> representing the type system descriptor). Then you can serialize >> that to XML and pass it to the JCasGen programmatically, or possibly >> pass the descriptor object directly to JCasGen (but I think that is not >> supported right now). >> >> This is a brief example how to create a type system descriptor in code: >> >> // Create a new type system from scratch >> TypeSystemDescription tsd = new TypeSystemDescription_impl(); >> TypeDescription tokenTypeDesc = tsd.addType("Token", "", >> CAS.TYPE_NAME_ANNOTATION); >> tokenTypeDesc.addFeature("length", "", CAS.TYPE_NAME_INTEGER); >> >> -- Richard >> >> On 19.09.2013, at 11:03, Eirini Psallida <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> i would like to define the Type System for my Annotator and then generate >>> the java classes without >>> using the XML descriptor and then the JCasGen button. I would like to do >> it >>> through java code only. >>> How can i do this? I suppose i need the uima-tools.jar where JCasGen is >>> implemented. >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Eirini >> >>
