After a year and a half of experimentation and work, UIMA Version 3 has advanced to the point where it's probably ready for more exposure and testing by others. To facilitate that, I've posted the first release candidate for the "alpha" version of UIMA 3.0.0.
If you happen to use JCas in your pipelines, and have JCas classes other than the standard built-in ones, these classes will need to be regenerated or migrated. If you use the Maven JCasGen plugin to generate the JCas classes as part of your project's build, your good - nothing special need be done. There is a migration tool, and there are scripts to run it, as well as Eclipse launch configurations to run it. The instructions for running this are in a new documentation "book", part of the binary distribution (html and pdf) - it's called the Uima V3 User's Guide. The guide also has an overview section which lists the new features of this release. Many of these need more test cases written for them; I'm happy to mentor any volunteers who want to improve the testing :-) . The list of changes in Jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20UIMA%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%203.0.0SDK-alpha The source and binary zip/tars and the Eclipse update site are staged to http://home.apache.org/~schor/uima-release-candidates/ <http://home.apache.org/%7Eschor/uima-release-candidates/> The Maven artifacts are here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheuima-1114/ The SVN tags are here: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/uimaj/tags/uimaj-3.0.0-alpha/ and for the Eclipse Update Site: http://home.apache.org/~schor/uima-release-candidates/uv3-alpha-rc1/eclipse-update-site/ <http://home.apache.org/%7Eschor/uima-release-candidates/uv3-alpha-rc1/eclipse-update-site/> I missed one minor issues-fixed item - but I think it shouldn't block the release of this alpha version. Please vote on release: [ ] +1 OK to release [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Not OK to release, because ... Thanks. -Marshall
