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Jerry Cwiklik commented on UIMA-5500:
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ideally users should use UIMA-AS client interface: 

public interface UimaAsynchronousEngine 

when interacting with the client code. There are two APIs for deploying:
  public String deploy(String aDeploymentDescriptor, Map anApplicationContext) 
throws Exception;
  public String deploy(String[] aDeploymentDescriptorList, Map 
anApplicationContext)
          throws Exception;

The deploySpringContainer() method is protected and I don't see how a user 
would use this since all the user has is the DD. 

In the interface I need to change undeploy() methods though:

  public void undeploy(String aSpringContainerId) throws Exception;
  public void undeploy(String aSpringContainerId, int stop_level) throws 
Exception;

In both cases, the aSpringContainerId argument name should be changed to 
something different like serviceId.  Same is true in the 
BaseUIMAAsynchronousEngine_impl.java. The method argument should be changed as 
well. 
So I think the impact on the user is minimal. Any documentation that mentions 
the above methods should also change. 

> UIMA-AS V3: Replace dd2spring with java based DD processing
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: UIMA-5500
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-5500
>             Project: UIMA
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: Async Scaleout
>            Reporter: Jerry Cwiklik
>            Assignee: Jerry Cwiklik
>             Fix For: 3.0.0AS
>
>
> Current UIMA-AS uses dd2spring to parse DD into intermediate format (Spring 
> Context) which is than fed into Spring Framework to instantiate components of 
> the UIMA-AS at runtime. The dd2spring uses saxon and custom xslt stylesheet 
> to process a DD. The xslt is quite complex and difficult to maintain. The 
> saxon library requires that the DD is provided as a fully qualified file  
> preventing from loading it from a classpath or datapath. 
> Instead of dd2spring, the UIMA-AS can use xmlbeans to parse the DD and 
> instantiate on object model representing it. There already exists a schema 
> for the DD in UIMA-AS from which an object model can be generated. 
> New java only code can than use the model to create components necessary to 
> deploy UIMA-AS service. The wiring of components will be done in java instead 
> of relying on Spring which hides much of this process. 
> The removal of dd2spring is largely an internal UIMA-AS concern and user code 
> impact of this change should be minimal. The user no longer will have to 
> specify Saxon nor the dd2springXsltFilePath when launching or deploying a 
> service. 



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