On 7/23/2015 8:55 AM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > On 23.07.2015, at 14:43, Joern Kottmann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> One thing which must have been overlooked when UIMA was built is that >> people (like me) have to write code which wants to interact with the CAS >> but can't be an AE. In UIMA the CAS (either in memory, or serialized) >> is difficult to >> be used without implementing an AE. > I'm not sure why you feel like that. E.g. in WebAnno (an annotation editor > that uses the CAS as its internal data model), create operate with the CAS > basically without any AEs. All editing operations are done directly on the > CAS which is loaded/saved directly using the UIMA API calls for binary > serialization.
One possible reason why people feel this way might be that we're missing some entertaining and compelling stories in multiple kinds of media that explain how to do the kinds of things, easily, that people say are hard. For example, there's little written on the new JSON serialization that gives lots of examples, including the super-simple varieties that are possible (i.e. omitting the context info). Volunteers wanted/needed to write this! :-) -Marshall > > Basically, we are using the same API that we would be using in an AE, but > without > the AE/pipelining stuff. It doesn't get any more difficult without the AE - > in fact > some things become easier without AEs, readers, and consumers. > > I'm sure you must have something similar in the CAS Editor plugin in Eclipse, > no? > > -- Richard
