I have two annotators that share a type system. Each is packaged in a
separate pear with its own copy of the type system descriptor and the
associated JCas classes. When I build an aggregate annotator using the
two pear descriptors and run it in the CVD, I get a run-time exception
in the process() method of the second annotator saying that it can't
find one of the cover classes. I have verified that the .class file for
this class is present in the bin/ subdirectory of the annotator's pear
installation directory, so it seems like the classpath must not be
getting set properly.
The following works fine: load the first annotator's pear descriptor in
the CVD, run the annotator on an input text file, save the result in an
XMI CAS file; load the second annotator's pear descriptor in the CVD,
load the XMI CAS file, run the annotator on that. It's when I combine
the two annotators into an aggregate and try to run it in one go that I
have a problem.
Does it sound like I'm doing something wrong? How can I debug this?
Thanks
-Aaron
