Hi Marshall, I have successfully used the UIMA along with the web-server logs, to generate analytics like the path-traversed by a web-user, the time spent on a web-page by that user and so on.
Can you please let me know if my solution(described below) for generating the channel-usability analytics makes use of the UIMA framework appropriately(in this case, the website on the webserver is the channel). The way I have done is: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Step[1]. Created an annotator to which the web-server logs can be fed. (The annotator uses one of the functions of the Simple-Server analytics, whose output is an XML file.) Step[2]. I have a DOM-parser that parses this XML file and feeds the data into a MySQL database. Step[3]. I then prepare my SQL-queries that use the data in the database to generate my reports. (I am working on a JSP solution for reporting) Step[4]. I am planning to schedule the Steps [1] and [2] above, as a scheduled-job on the web-server itself, so that the log-file processing could be automated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to know if there is a better way of using the UIMA in the current context. ThankYou. Kind Regards, Balkrishnan.V
