Re: what is the difference between the base CAS view and _InitialView?

2010-01-02 Thread Eddie Epstein
The base CAS delivered to Sofa aware components has no explicit view associated with it. The logic is that it is impossible to know the intent of a sofa aware component and it should use getView as needed. Sofa unaware components should therefor not declare sofa capabilities. These components are

what is the difference between the base CAS view and _InitialView?

2009-12-30 Thread Philip Ogren
I have a component that takes text from the _InitialView view, creates a second view, and posts a modified version of the text to the second view. I had a unit test that was reading in a JCas from an XMI file and running the JCas through my annotator and testing that the text was correctly