uimaFIT: managing component configurations

[Jens Grivolla]

Hi,

so far we were using PEARs to manage different configurations of 
components, e.g. having a CountryMapper, CityMapper, PersonMapper, etc., 
all based on ConceptMapper but with different settings/models.

How would I do that in uimaFIT? Basically I would like to create 
components that just override the default values for parameters/resources.

In some cases, parameters are additionally overridden at the pipeline 
level (CPE/uimaFIT), e.g. when using a database CasConsumer where we 
would have several base configurations (e.g. annotation to DB column 
mappings), but then override the DB connection settings in the pipeline.

Having the full configuration at the pipeline level makes it much more 
difficult to manage configurations, so I would like to be able to point 
to a given component and automatically get the correct default settings.

Thanks,
Jens