On 5/8/2013 4:37 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > The idea that one must remove a stock-UIMA jar and replace it with another > was something I always thought a bit… well… ugly.
Yes, I agree. It's an opportunity for a better approach :-). > > That link also doesn't say how to add features to it. Probably by defining > the type in a XML. It seems a bit odd that section 5.5.3 (Impact of Type > Merging on Composability of Annotators) pledges against type merging when > 5.5.4 (Adding Features to DocumentAnnotation) says to use exactly that. True. 5.5.4 therefore says how to make things work when you do this (remove the stock-UIMA jar for DocumentAnnotation, and replace it with yours, if you are intending to use the JCas with it). -Marshall
