On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jörn Kottmann<kottm...@gmail.com> wrote: > The CasPool has a constructor > > CasPool(int aNumInstances, Collection aComponentDescriptionsOrMetaData, > Properties aPerformanceTuningSettings, ResourceManager > aResourceManager) > > where aComponentDescriptionsOrMetaData is a collection which can contain > according > to javadoc "AnalysisEngineDescription, CollectionReaderDescription, > CasConsumerDescription or ProcessingResourceMetaData objects" > > A reference of the Collection is passed to fillPool which passes the > Collection > to a CasDefinition constructor which then casts everything to > ProcessingResourceMetaData, > which will result in a ClassCastException in the case of > AnalysisEngineDescription, > CollectionReaderDescription and CasConsumerDescription objects. > > Well, when we use generics we get an error. >
Good catch, that javadoc does seem to be wrong. I wonder if it was correct at some point in the past and the code has changed? -Adam
