Helen, You might also consider using UIMA-AS instead. UIMA-AS allows you to deploy a service (your AAE) that can be remotely accessed by UIMA-AS clients on other machines or in other JVMs for scalable deployments. Each client provides a CollectionReader to supply documents to the service and a Listener to catch return events from the service to know when processing is complete. You can find some additional getting started information about UIMA-AS at the following:
http://uima.apache.org/doc-uimaas-what.html Thanks, Thomas Ginter 801-448-7676 thomas.gin...@utah.edu On Feb 19, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Helen Johnson -X (heljohns - Infobahn Softworld Inc at Cisco) <heljo...@cisco.com> wrote: > Thanks for your reply, Jens. > > I admit I had been avoiding setting the text of the CAS to be the entire XML > string I get back from the first REST service because it is a massive string > and I only want a couple nodes from that xml string to be processed > throughout the UIMA pipeline. But I see your point. > > > So then, in this new AE, I retrieve the entire XML string from the CAS, do > the zone-information processing from the specific nodes of the XML. I assume > it is straightforward to then reset the CAS text to be just this text I have > found in the original XML. Specifically, I would use CAS.reset() to empty > the CAS of the original (full XML) text, then jCAS.setDocumentText() with the > new string of just the relevant text, as well as load all the doc-zone > annotations at this point. Is this right? > > Cheers, > Helen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jens Grivolla [mailto:j+...@grivolla.net] > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 3:20 AM > To: user@uima.apache.org > Subject: Re: SimpleServer, & instantiating CAS with custom typesystem? > > Hi, SimpleServer itself is in a way your CR, creating a CAS with the document > text you sent. Why do you want to change SimpleServer, it seems that you only > want to add annotations to the CAS, not fundamentally change how the CAS is > created. > > It seems to me that it would be far easier to just create an AE that adds > those annotations. Then you won't have any typesystem issues either, since > the AE would have the appropriate typesystem. > > HTH, > Jens > > On 02/18/2013 10:37 PM, Helen Johnson -X (heljohns - Infobahn Softworld Inc > at Cisco) wrote: >> I'm stumped: >> >> I have a UIMA pipeline that starts with a CollectionReader that >> >> - reads XML input (response from a REST service), >> >> - identifies a couple of relevant XML nodes >> >> - makes document-level annotations from the relevant nodes (title, >> document body, footnote section) >> From there, the AnalysisEngine portion of the pipeline has many AEs that >> I've wrapped into a single AggregateAnalysisEngine. >> The CollectionReader and the AAE all work correctly in this pipeline. >> >> Now I need to transfer this pipeline into a SimpleServer REST service >> environment. >> I've created a PEAR of the AAE portion of the pipeline, but I can't include >> the CollectionReader in this PEAR. >> First question: >> It is my understanding the CR cannot be included in the PEAR for the >> simpleServer, am I correct in this? >> >> In order to get those document-zoning annotations of title, body & footnote, >> I have added some methods to the Service.java class in the SimpleServer >> package that do the XML parsing and then do the adding of these annotations >> to the JCAS before the AAE is called. The error that is being thrown at this >> point is this: >> >> "The server encountered an internal error (JCas type >> "myPackage.DocClass.ArticleMainTitle" used in Java code, but was not >> declared in the XML type descriptor.) that prevented it from fulfilling this >> request." >> >> Second question: >> Where is Service.java looking for the typesystem xml file to be? I have >> tried all of the following, with the same error result: >> >> - put the typesystem descriptor file, myTSD.xml, in SimpleServer/lib >> >> - create a jar containing myTSD.xml, put it into SimpleServer/lib >> and add that to the build path >> >> - (after the two above attempts), in SimpleServer project >> properties, add "lib" to the UIMA CDE Property Page >> >> - in SimpleServer project properties, in UIMA Type System, point to >> the myTSD.xml file in lib >> >> - put myTSD.xml in SimpeServer/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib >> >> - put the jar containing myTSD.xml in the >> SimpleServer/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib >> >> - put myTSD.xml in SimpleServer/WebContent/WEB-INF/resources >> >> Final question: >> When a CAS gets instantiated (or reset, as it does in Service.java), how can >> I tell it to use a custom typesystem, and where will it look for that >> typesystem.xml file within the SimpleServer project? >> >> Thank you, >> Helen Johnson >> >> > >
