Greg Holmberg wrote:
> Hi UIMA users--
>
> I see in the README for 2.3 that UIMA-AS uses a new, efficient binary
> serialization for remote services.
>
> I couldn't find much information about it in the Async Scaleout docs. 
> It was briefly mentioned as a configuration option, but not described.
>
> Is this the same format that is used to serialize to C++?

I believe it's similar but not exactly the same.
>
> If not, where can I find more information?

Read the open source code :-)
>
>
> Must the recipient re-constitute the CAS, or is it self-describing
> like XML and could be handled by a non-UIMA recipient?

It's much lower level than XML, and requires the recipient to have an
*identical* type system definition.  See note on this topic from Edward
Epstein in the thread "Re: XMI parsing" from 1/27/2010 10:03 AM.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg Holmberg
>
>
>

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