+1!
Im mainly using ctakes as middleware, which is totally inline with this. What is NCBO? JG — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:53 PM, andy mcmurry <mcmurry.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lowering the barrier to entry = worth the effort > Notice the NCBO users mailing list has solid routine comments and > discussion about the VM "appliance" they distribute. > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Pei Chen <chen...@apache.org> wrote: >> We spent some time in the past to make it easier for users to launch the >> CVD/CPE. >> But based on the questions/discussions, I think we are passed this stage >> and a very common use case would be for developers to use cTAKES as a lib, >> extend a class or two and then, embed it into their existing app. >> >> I am proposing a ctakes-web-demo for the sandbox, >> A simple webapp- war/maven pom.xml that uses the ctakes as a dependency. >> Have a simple servlet that wires up a pipeline (uimaFIT style), and then >> dump the CAS as html table. We could even host it on: >> https://demo-ctakes.apache.org/ >> >> It will probably only be a few lines of code, but it may be a good starting >> point for developers who are more interested in using it as a lib and not >> necessarily modifying ctakes code. >> >> >> What do folks think? >> >> --Pei >>