I got this from SourceForge but was unable to run it. The net.sf.tae
plugins show up with red X's in the plugin registry, even though I've
installed GEF and UIMA 1.3.2. There's nothing in the error log. What
might I be doing wrong?
There is a compatibility issue with the "plugin" loading mechanism
used by uima and the OSGi Runtime used by eclipse.
UIMA uses its current classloader (Class.forName(...)) to load
extensions
like Annotators, CASConsumer, etc. This behavior is not well supported
inside the OSGI Runtime inside OSGi a plugin defines a so called
extension-points. These extension-points than can be extended by other
plugins. All class loading issues are handled by the OSGi Runtime.
For the uima case there is a work-around
(Eclipse-BuddyPolicy: dependent) inside eclipse, but this must be
enabled in the uima eclipse plugin descriptor. Currently it is not.
Maybe it would be a great to use OSGi for uima too.
The next tae release will include everything that is necessary to run it
out of the box.
Jörn
