Steven Bethard wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Thilo Goetz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I don't know the details of what you did, but it sounds to me like >>> you threw many advantages of UIMA (reusability, transparent remotability >>> etc.) right out of the window. >> I don't see why that would be the case. We're still creating >> AnalysisEngineDescriptions, just in Java code, not XML. > [snip] >> I haven't played around with "transparent remotability", but I can't >> see why using Java descriptors instead of XML descriptors would make >> that any harder. Maybe you can elaborate? > > I would like to hear an answer to this if anyone knows. Is there > something you can do with an XML descriptor that you can't do with an > AnalysisEngineDescription object?
You can't do any of the things that our documentation says you can do with a descriptor. You can't read it, for example. > > Steve
