Jörn Kottmann wrote: > Marshall Schor wrote: >> I was testing the Cas Editor plugin, as a new naive user. >> >> There is nothing in the documentation that says to create one or more >> new projects, of a special type, for use by the Cas Editor - so I was >> trying to use a plain Java project, and of course, nothing was working. >> >> Part of the problem is that the label for the Cas Editor things in >> Eclipse is "NLP". I did not recognize or associate that with either >> UIMA or the Cas Editor. (So, for instance, if you say in Eclipse, menu >> -> file -> new -> other you get a pick list with lots of things, >> including one labeled "NLP". Same with menu -> window - show view -> >> other same NLP entry.) >> >> I think we should rename this categorization tag to something that uses >> the words Uima, and CasEditor - maybe it should be a 2 level >> categorization, the top one being UIMA (which already exists, and is >> used by the Component Descriptor Editor), and a then "CasEditor". >> >> WDYT? (What do you think)? >> > You are right Marshall, they should be renamed to something > which is appropriate now, the naming is a left over from the first > days of the Cas Editor. > > The reason they were not renamed yet for the 2.3.0 release is > that we should start a bigger refactoring effort to remove the project > model from the Cas Editor plugin and create a new plugin based on it > which helps users developing UIMA applications. A while > back we decided to do this after the 2.3.0 release. > > Changing the names is not a big deal, but we should take into account > that they > might be changed again for the release after 2.3.0. > > +1 for the naming you suggested. If it's quick to do, maybe we should rename this for the 2.3.0 release. In any case, I think we need a paragraph in the documentation at the beginning to tell the user he needs to create a Cas Editor project using the wizard, before he can use the Cas Editor - that it only works in that context.
-Marshall > > Jörn > >
