Could the CasEditor package be set up as an Eclipse plugin and
install into a user's Eclipse, as an alternative to being a stand-
alone RCP application?
The Cas Editor is intended to be a stand alone tool which was built to
support manual or semi automatic
annotation of text corpora. It was not built to support development of
annotators inside eclipse.
Sure, its possible to run the cas editor as plugin inside eclipse, but
there are some issues e.g. with eclipse search.
If we do this we have to test everything again and then take a look at
the new issues which will arise. Maybe fix some of
them before we can release it.
In my opinion we should create a special eclipse plugin which supports
development of uima annotators.
This should integrate into eclipse launch to run an annotator. To view
cas files inside eclipse the editing
part of the Cas Editor can be reused.
I would strongly prefer that we do both the Cas Editor and later a
development plugin for eclipse.
Jörn
