Hi,
The 2nd alpha release of version 3 of uima-sdk is posted for voting.
The main changes:
- Eclipse update site is now separate - it's under it's own high-level folder,
uimaj-v3-pre-production
- the main eclipse update site was updated to include this as an additional
subsite.
- The "select" framework APIs had javadocs added and some fixes which resulted
in API changes for some methods.
- Logging was upgraded in two ways: The log4j back end for the UIMA logger was
upgraded to log4j 2 (the current version).
And, support was added for the slf4j logging facade.
- changes made to uimaj-2.9.0 were merged.
- Various implementations of UIMA built-in types which have corresponding Java
8 non-boxing versions of methods were
augmented to support non-boxing alternatives; see the API changes report for
details.
- a new report is available (similar to issues fixed) in the source-release and
binary distributions called api-change-report.html.
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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 .
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The list of changes in Jira:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20UIMA%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%203.0.0SDK-alpha02
The source and binary zip/tars and the Eclipse update site are staged to
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/uima/uimaj-v3/uimaj-3.0.0-alpha02/
The eclipse update site is a folder called "uimaj-v3-pre-production"
The Maven artifacts are here:
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheuima-1123/
The SVN tag is here:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/uimaj/tags/uimaj-3.0.0-alpha02/
and for the Eclipse Update Site:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/uima/uimaj-v3/uimaj-3.0.0-alpha02/uimaj-v3-pre-production/
Please vote on release:
[ ] +1 OK to release
[ ] 0 Don't care
[ ] -1 Not OK to release, because ...
Thanks.
-Marshall
