Thanks Richard and others for the release of uimaFIT 2! Here are a few shell commands to ease the migration to version 2: https://gist.github.com/renaud/6726388
BTW, what happened to DocumentAnnotation in UIMA 2.4? Best, Renaud On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Richard Eckart de Castilho <[email protected]>wrote: > The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of > > Apache uimaFIT, version 2.0.0 (initial Apache release) > > Apache uimaFIT is a library that facilitates the building of > Apache UIMA components, the programmatic use of Apache UIMA > analysis pipelines, and their testing. > > uimaFIT employs Java annotations to integrate UIMA meta data > directly into the source code, allowing for less lines of code > and better refactorability then traditional, XML descriptor-based > UIMA projects. It is capable of automatically detecting meta data, > e.g. type system information, from the classpath. Convenience > methods are provided for constructing components, pipelines, > and for accessing annotations. > > This is the first Apache release of the project previously known > simply as "uimaFIT". > > The major changes in this release are: > > * Migration to Apache Foundation as part of the Apache UIMA project > * New Maven coordinates > (groupId: org.apache.uima; artifactId: uimafit-core) > * New uimaFIT Maven plugin for automatically generating uimaFIT > meta data in component classes and UIMA descriptors from > uimaFIT-annotated component classes > * New module for backwards compatibility with uimaFIT 1.4.x-based > components > * Consolidated documentation in HTML and PDF format > * Moved CPE support to separate dependency > (groupId: org.apache.uima; artifactId: uimafit-cpe) > * Improved component life-cycle handling > * New support for setting multi-valued parameters with simple single > values (no need to wrap them in a collection or array anymore) > * Improved support for external resources, including support for > multi-valued external resources > > Note on compatibility and migration: > > Apache uimaFIT 2.0.0 is not a drop-in replacement for uimaFIT 1.4.x, > although, it was tried to keep the migration effort minimal. Please > refer to the migration guide for all the details on incompatible > changes between uimaFIT 1.4.0 and Apache uimaFIT 2.0.0: > > http://uima.apache.org/d/uimafit-2.0.0/tools.uimafit.book.html#d5e617 > > Additionally, there have been more bug fixes and minor improvements. > For a full list of the changes, please refer to Jira: > > http://uima.apache.org/d/uimafit-2.0.0/issuesFixed/jira-report.html > > -- Richard Eckart de Castilho, for the Apache UIMA development team > -- Renaud Richardet Blue Brain Project PhD candidate EPFL Station 15 CH-1015 Lausanne phone: +41-78-675-9501 http://people.epfl.ch/renaud.richardet
