On 9/27/2013 5:57 AM, Renaud Richardet wrote: > 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? See this mail thread and associated links for some background here.
http://markmail.org/message/shjzjwnihmqckzwo > > 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 >> > >
