For the YTEX port, I've taken a few baby steps ... I've filed some jira tickets with patches: CTAKES-253<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-253> and CTAKES-252 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CTAKES-252>, more coming soon.
I have a question regarding testing: it seems to me that the old analysis engines all use xml descriptors, whereas the newer analysis engines appear to be using uimafit. I understand why that's the case, but the dissonance between the development & user directory structures makes it very difficult to write portable tests and portable xml-based ae configs: for a 'user' install, everything under desc is in the classpath, whereas for the developer install, none of the desc directories are in the classpath. When I'm writing an XML-based aggregate AE config, I prefer to import delegate AEs by name instead of location as resolving files by classpath is much more flexible than resolution by file paths. Can we add the desc directories to the maven-surefire-plugin classpath (as is done with resources) so that the classpath is consistent across developer/user installs? TIA, VJ