Hello,

I am currently building a web application (with SpringMVC running in tomcat) that should serve to demonstrate the result of the processing of each component in this pipeline. Some components do their job, while others don't.

These are the facts:
- I am using one TypeSystem that is in the classpath of the main application (as a jar). - Each PEAR component has a type system descriptor, that reside in the 'desc' folder and are referenced by the AnalysisEngine descriptors. The type system descriptors are all the identical. - The component that does not work (a NETagger) uses another component (utilities) - while the other working components don't (!!!) - for getting a special Annotation object (type 'Variation' - a bio entity). The call is:
entity = (Entity) AnnotationTools.getAnnotationByName(aJCas, className).
This call gives back null, and throws a java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException caused by a org.apache.uima.cas.CASRuntimeException: JCas type "de.julielab.jules.types.Variation" used in Java code, but was not declared in the XML type descriptor. - I checked if the descriptors are missing that type, but they don't, so I assume that the descriptors themselves are OK. Perhaps they have a wrong place - but how do I see which descriptor UIMA uses at a time? - I am installing the PEARs at runtime with the PackageInstaller.installPackage(...) method - The utilities are included in the main application as a jar; they don't have any type system descriptors, because they should be used independently and they are working in a 'non-PEAR' environement.
-can this have to do something with running it with tomcat?

I already recognized that each PEAR is loaded by a different classloader and that this caused that the PEARs itself could not use its own TypeSystem-JAR or other JARs that has dublicates in other PEARs or the main application (e.g. log4j) - this is some kind of mysterious for me - could someone explain why this is so?

So what can I do to get my NETagger running? Could anybody help me. Hints and tips are also very welcome. (I'm getting frustrated with this f... problem)

I attached a part of the tomcat logging file that shows the stacktrace in detail when the above mentiond Exception is thrown.

greetings
Matthias

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Matthias Mühlhausen
Jena University Language and Information Engineering (JULIE) Lab
Phone: +49-3641-944305
Fax:   +49-3641-944321
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URL:   http://www.coling.uni-jena.de

829774 [http-8080-Processor25] DEBUG 
de.julielab.jules.ae.netagger.EntityAnnotator  - process(JCas, 
ResultSpecification) -  JNET: processing next document
830295 [http-8080-Processor25] ERROR 
de.julielab.jules.ae.netagger.EntityAnnotator  - addAnnotation(JCas, int, int, 
String)
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:494)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.utility.AnnotationTools.getAnnotationByClassName(AnnotationTools.java:49)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.ae.netagger.EntityAnnotator.addAnnotation(EntityAnnotator.java:399)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.ae.netagger.EntityAnnotator.writeToCAS(EntityAnnotator.java:373)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.ae.netagger.EntityAnnotator.process(EntityAnnotator.java:235)
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.compatibility.AnnotatorAdapter.process(AnnotatorAdapter.java:146)
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.callAnalysisComponentProcess(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:373)
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.processAndOutputNewCASes(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:292)
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AnalysisEngineImplBase.process(AnalysisEngineImplBase.java:202)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.demo.domain.AnalysisComponent.process(AnalysisComponent.java:98)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.demo.domain.PipelineImpl.process(PipelineImpl.java:366)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.demo.domain.PipelineFactory.getPipelineInstance(PipelineFactory.java:129)
        at 
org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:242)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:334)
        at 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:672)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:463)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:398)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:142)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:243)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1141)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:878)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:792)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:461)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:416)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: org.apache.uima.cas.CASRuntimeException: JCas type 
"de.julielab.jules.types.Variation" used in Java code,  but was not declared in 
the XML type descriptor.
        at org.apache.uima.jcas.impl.JCasImpl.getType(JCasImpl.java:292)
        at org.apache.uima.jcas.cas.TOP.<init>(TOP.java:92)
        at 
org.apache.uima.jcas.cas.AnnotationBase.<init>(AnnotationBase.java:53)
        at org.apache.uima.jcas.tcas.Annotation.<init>(Annotation.java:54)
        at de.julielab.jules.types.Annotation.<init>(Annotation.java:41)
        at de.julielab.jules.types.Entity.<init>(Entity.java:42)
        at de.julielab.jules.types.BioEntity.<init>(BioEntity.java:41)
        at de.julielab.jules.types.Variation.<init>(Variation.java:41)
        ... 51 more
26.06.2007 11:57:39 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl 
callAnalysisComponentProcess(397)
SCHWERWIEGEND: Exception occurred
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.AnalysisEngineProcessException: Annotator 
processing failed.
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.callAnalysisComponentProcess(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:384)
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.processAndOutputNewCASes(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:292)
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AnalysisEngineImplBase.process(AnalysisEngineImplBase.java:202)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.demo.domain.AnalysisComponent.process(AnalysisComponent.java:98)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.demo.domain.PipelineImpl.process(PipelineImpl.java:366)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.demo.domain.PipelineFactory.getPipelineInstance(PipelineFactory.java:129)
        at 
org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:242)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:334)
        at 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:672)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:463)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:398)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:142)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:243)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1141)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:878)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:792)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:461)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:416)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
de.julielab.jules.ae.netagger.EntityAnnotator.addAnnotation(EntityAnnotator.java:424)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.ae.netagger.EntityAnnotator.writeToCAS(EntityAnnotator.java:373)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.ae.netagger.EntityAnnotator.process(EntityAnnotator.java:235)
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.compatibility.AnnotatorAdapter.process(AnnotatorAdapter.java:146)
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.callAnalysisComponentProcess(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:373)
        ... 41 more
830323 [http-8080-Processor25] ERROR 
de.julielab.jules.demo.domain.AnalysisComponent  - process(CAS) Analysis Engine 
Name=Variation Tagger
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.AnalysisEngineProcessException: Annotator 
processing failed.
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.callAnalysisComponentProcess(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:384)
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.processAndOutputNewCASes(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:292)
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AnalysisEngineImplBase.process(AnalysisEngineImplBase.java:202)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.demo.domain.AnalysisComponent.process(AnalysisComponent.java:98)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.demo.domain.PipelineImpl.process(PipelineImpl.java:366)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.demo.domain.PipelineFactory.getPipelineInstance(PipelineFactory.java:129)
        at 
org.apache.jsp.WEB_002dINF.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:242)
        at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:334)
        at 
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:672)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:463)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:398)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:301)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOutputModel(InternalResourceView.java:142)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView.render(AbstractView.java:243)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1141)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:878)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:792)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:461)
        at 
org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:416)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
de.julielab.jules.ae.netagger.EntityAnnotator.addAnnotation(EntityAnnotator.java:424)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.ae.netagger.EntityAnnotator.writeToCAS(EntityAnnotator.java:373)
        at 
de.julielab.jules.ae.netagger.EntityAnnotator.process(EntityAnnotator.java:235)
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.compatibility.AnnotatorAdapter.process(AnnotatorAdapter.java:146)
        at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.callAnalysisComponentProcess(PrimitiveAnalysisEngine_impl.java:373)
        ... 41 more

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