Yes. I was thinking of the use case for example- the ytex component need
SentenceDectectorA but dictionary lookup component expects SentenceDectectorB.
It's probably not too common but something to consider with the cool
dynamic/plugin n play pipelines idea.
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On Apr 28,
My vote would be for the latter. Have the Factory create pipelines instead.
It could just be a naming thing though...
+1 for building dynamic pipelines. I think this idea has been thrown around for
sometime, but it hasn't been really worked on so it would be cool to see it in
action. I think
It would be nice if uimaFIT provided a Maven plugin to automatically
generate descriptors for aggregates. Maybe if we come up with a
convention for factories, e.g. a class with static methods that do
not take any parameters and that return descriptors, or methods
that bear a specific Java
+1. And note that once you have a descriptor, you can generate the
XML, so we should arrange to replace the current XML descriptors with
ones generated automatically from the uimaFIT code. That should reduce
some synchronization problems when the Java code was changed but the
XML descriptor was
