I have just added some documentation on how to create executable fat-jars compatible in a uimaFIT-compatible way [1] - maybe that can be useful to you in packaging cTAKES (example) applications.
Another thing I found very useful in the past was the creation of similarly self-contained web-applications that come as a single JAR. A prominent example of that species is Jenkins. Using "java -jar jenkins.jar", one starts up the web application and can then access it using a browser. It is very straight forward to create such runnable web application using Winstone (previously used also by Jenkins) [2]. Jenkins has since switched to using Jetty because Winstone was temporarily not further maintained. Unfortunately, I do not know if using Jetty is comparably trivial as using Winstone. Just my 2 cents. Cheers, -- Richard [1] https://builds.apache.org/view/S-Z/view/UIMA/job/UIMA-uimaFIT_2_0_x/ws/2.0.x/uimafit-docbook/target/site/d/tools.uimafit.book.html#ugr.tools.uimafit.packaging [2] http://alchim.sourceforge.net/winstone-maven-plugin/usage.html On 16.04.2014, at 18:37, 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.
