Hi Marshall, > On 18.10.2016, at 23:28, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Several Jiras talk about wanting external shared resources that can be > configured using the standard UIMA configuration settings and parameters. > > For example: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-2979. > > Currently, there is one UIMA external resource descriptor that supports this, > which is the configurableDataResourceSpecifier. It has a resourceMetaData > sub-element, which, in turn, has the configurationParameters and > configurationParameterSettings elements. > > There is an alternate, simpler approach to configuring external resources, now > available (as of UIMA 2.9.0) - using direct access to the External > Configuration > parameters. See section 2.4.3.5 in the UIMA Reference book. The idea is that > each External Resource would define its own set of key-value parameter > settings, > and retrieve them at run time.
Could you comment how to realize the scenarios illustrated in [1] could be implemented using the External Configuration parameters? The point in these scenarios is having complex (potentially nested) objects that are composed and used to customize the behavior of one or more components. The objects take parameters and contain logic. Best, -- Richard [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-2903?focusedCommentId=13708539&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13708539
