The uimaFIT ExternalResourceFactoryTest has examples of resources that derive from Resource and others that derive from SharedResourceObject.
Cheers, -- Richard https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/uimafit/trunk/uimafit-core/src/test/java/org/apache/uima/fit/factory/ExternalResourceFactoryTest.java > On 20.10.2016, at 21:29, Richard Eckart de Castilho <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 20.10.2016, at 21:27, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The interesting part is the Java type of the returned value - it is >> specified as >> >> Class<? extends Resource> >> >> which will throw a cast exception if the implementing class can't be cast to >> Resource. > > I believe due to type erasure, this does not throw a cast exception as long > as the value is a Class. > > Best, > > -- Richard
