Kai Schlamp wrote:
Jörn Kottmann wrote:
Kai Schlamp wrote:
Would love to hear about your project and what do you want to do
with the Cas Editor.
It's a biomedical text analysis platform. It is extensible by third
partys with their analyzers and document importers. We use an own
type system as everything is very graph centric.
At the moment we only present those annotations that are included in
our type system. But it would be nice to have a feature to show all
annotations of all analysis engines that were used.
But the problem with a simple integration of CAS Editor would be
that our application only exists of views (no editors at all ... an
no editors welcome ;-)). But we could perhaps integrate some of the
code. Not sure about that yet as we have other priorities. E.g.
releasing a first beta version in the upcoming weeks.
The difference between an editor and a view in eclipse is that an
editor can have
multiple instances, a view can only have one instance. Usually if you
have an application
which is working with some kind of document which can be opened you
also want be
able to open multiple documents at once.
The Cas Editor assumes that you open the CAS in an editor. If you
don't do that you cannot
reuse anything.
Though I do not understand why you don't want to use editors.
Ah, that's an ongoing discussion of RCP developers. There are cases
where editors simply doesn't make sense.
And when you look at some of the already available RCP apps
(some larget projects are listed at
http://eclipse.org/community/rcp.php), there are many without editors.
If you simply don't edit anything (e.g. a text document) ... why have
an editor then?
In our app there is no load, edit, save cycle.
So you see, it depends on the type of application. And this wasn't
anything against CAS Editor. It surely needs
editors ... the name already points this out :-)
I am just curious because, I considered the case where you have an (cas)
editor as the only one.
So I would also be interested to learn if there is a possibility to have
the Cas Editor views in a away
that they could be used without an editor.
If I remember it correctly the tool you are working on is also Open
Source right ? Then I can have a look at
it after your beta release.
Jörn
