Do we have an abstract high-level summary of the changes in v3 compared to 2.9?
I must admit that I am not sure that I would list all major changes but I would just summarize them as internal modernization. There is a lot of information in confluence, but I am not sure if that is all concerning the new implementation. (There is a question about 3.0.0 on the cTAKES mailing list) Best, Peter Am 14.02.2017 um 04:48 schrieb Marshall Schor: > 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. > > ----------- (from the first alpha release vote: ------------- > > 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-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 > >
