That code has probably been sitting around for the last couple of releases, so we have it in various tags. Why not purge it from trunk? If the code around it changes, it soon becomes meaningless anyway.
-- Richard On 05.11.2013, at 20:32, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi James, > > I suggest commenting out the unused code - would that work? > > -Marshall (feeling conservative ...) > > On 10/30/2013 7:04 PM, James Jichun Zhu wrote: >> Hi, Marshall Schor: >> >> I am looking into implementing a new mode for the annotation viewer (for >> details please see the UIMA issue #3374). I do feel the new feature I am >> about to implement will be of great value and intend to contribute it back >> to the UIMA code base once I have successfully implemented it. >> >> While going through the source code, I noticed that the code (more >> specifically, a class org.apache.uima.tools.viewer.CasAnnotationViewer in >> the SVN trunk) has not been significantly updated ever since its initial >> import on 11/02/2006. There is a feature called "entity mode" that is >> half-baked and disabled since it was not quite completed. It significantly >> complicated the code structure and made my implementation of the new view >> mode unnecessarily complicated as well. >> >> So, I am wondering if we should clean out the unused code so I can >> implement the new feature on a cleaner code base. If you can get hold of >> whoever that used to own this piece of code and get some of his/her opinion >> of it that would be great too. >> >> Thanks! >> >> James >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Peter Klügl (JIRA) >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> [ >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-3374?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13805161#comment-13805161] >>> >>> Peter Klügl commented on UIMA-3374: >>> ----------------------------------- >>> >>> I had lately a discussion about different highlighting in the CAS Editor >>> dependent on the feature values (as the CAS Editor assigns one color to one >>> type, impractical if the semantic is defined by a feature). I will probably >>> open the same feature request for the CAS Editor sometime. >>> >>> As a side note: >>> The UIMA Ruta Workbench provides a view for querying collections of xmi >>> files with rules. You could use that view for getting a list of all >>> annotations with a certain feature value. >>> >>>> A new mode for annotation viewer based on feature values >>>> -------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> Key: UIMA-3374 >>>> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-3374 >>>> Project: UIMA >>>> Issue Type: Improvement >>>> Components: InternalTools >>>> Affects Versions: 2.5.0SDK >>>> Reporter: James Zhu >>>> Priority: Minor >>>> Labels: newbie >>>> Original Estimate: 504h >>>> Remaining Estimate: 504h >>>> >>>> I'd like to propose adding a new "view mode" in the UIMA Annotation >>> Viewer so that user can pick a specific type of annotations, and then pick >>> a specific feature, and pick specific feature values available so user can >>> see a subset of those annotation objects that have the specific feature >>> values.
