We are also in the process to move our product to the UIMA version. We got a working version within hours without special problem and it's a big product using the whole framework.
I think that there is still some support on the IBM version since OmniFind is using it but using the UIMA version is a good move. The design is cleaner and it's better to be on the mainstream for support, features and interoperability. The costliest part for us is to convert all our sources using CAS Initializers since it was deprecated in version 2 and disappeared in version 2.2 . I'm wondering if there is a way to build a version 2.2 with XCAS Initializer support? Thanks, Pascal Pascal Coupet -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Serff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: UIMA Apache is a real pain I can attest to only having to change the package names. I converted the BaLIE Annoator in a matter of seconds by just changing the package names to use the apache package names. I didn't have to change anything else to use it under the Apache UIMA. So I'd keep on trying, let everyone know what your specific problem is and I'm sure someone will be able to help you. IBM isn't moving forward on the UIMA SDK (unless I just don't know...), so it seems almost necessary that people move to Apache if they want to get new features, etc. Good Luck! Andrew Marshall Schor wrote: > Hi - > > Sorry to hear you're having such a frustrating time! > > It's a little hard to figure out what might be helpful here without some > further details. I don't think anything changed in the implementation > that would alter the behavior you describe regarding CPEs. Can you > describe what's going wrong? > > We're continually trying to balance going forward with keeping backwards > compatibility. When moving to Apache UIMA, there was a need to change > the package names (to org.apache.uima...) - that was the biggest change > that required users to change their code and recompile. We included a > utility that attempted to update the source for these changes - were you > able to make use of it? > > -Marshall > > > Christian Mauceri wrote: > >> I spent some hours in trying to port my old UIMA IBM Appli in the >> Apache version and it's a real pain where you know. I do not >> understand why to change things at this point and make things so >> difficult for the others. I do not see the benefit for anybody, one >> can imagine the decision to use UIMA is not spending all the time in >> trying to understand the deprecated functions, the PATH rules etc. >> Something becomes a standard because it is supposed to be useful and >> make people life easier. For my deepest regret it is not the case for >> this version of UIMA. Among other thing I cannot understand why it is >> not possible to embed in simple way descriptors and CPEs in a plugin >> and forget the machinery beyond, let's imagine if for instance EMF >> produced such head ache. >> In the IBM version it was possible to generate a CPE and put it in a >> folder with the other descriptors and have an Eclipse action doing >> something like : >> >> CpeDescription cpeDesc = UIMAFramework.getXMLParser() >> .parseCpeDescription( >> new >> XMLInputSource(cpeFile.getLocation().toOSString())); >> CollectionProcessingEngine cpe = >> UIMAFramework.produceCollectionProcessingEngine(cpeDesc); >> >> then something like >> >> monitor.beginTask("Starting CPE", nod); >> //Create and register a Status Callback Listener >> >> StatusCallbackListenerImpl cbl = >> new StatusCallbackListenerImpl(monitor); >> cpe.addStatusCallbackListener(cbl); >> cpe.process(); >> while (!cbl.isFinished()){ >> if(monitor.isCanceled()){ >> cpe.stop(); >> return Status.CANCEL_STATUS; >> } >> } >> >> without worrying about the CLASSPATH or I do not know what, why is it >> that difficult now? Because we have to suffer before having the right >> to use this so wonderful framework? >> >> I'm at 1 month from a crucial deadline, I need the Eclipse 3.3 >> version, I regret my first choice, deeply! >> >> >> > >
