On 09/18/2013 04:34 PM, Alexandre Patry wrote:
From what I understand, the root of the problem is the lack of a versioning mecanism for analysis engines. The best solution from my point of view would be to recommend a way to version analysis engine and offer new methods to UimaContext to access configuration parameter by type, but without the `mandatory` argument which repeats what is in the descriptor.
A user can also accidentally change the descriptor, then the AE code would fail again in the ugly way if there are no additional checks to make it fail nicely (not by throwing NPEs, or ClasCastExceptions).
Jörn
