Jörn Kottmann wrote: > Marshall Schor wrote: >> Jörn Kottmann wrote: >> >>> Marshall Schor wrote: >>> >>>> I was testing the Cas Editor plugin, as a new naive user. >>>> >>>> There is nothing in the documentation that says to create one or more >>>> new projects, of a special type, for use by the Cas Editor - so I was >>>> trying to use a plain Java project, and of course, nothing was >>>> working. >>>> >>>> Part of the problem is that the label for the Cas Editor things in >>>> Eclipse is "NLP". I did not recognize or associate that with either >>>> UIMA or the Cas Editor. (So, for instance, if you say in Eclipse, >>>> menu >>>> -> file -> new -> other you get a pick list with lots of things, >>>> including one labeled "NLP". Same with menu -> window - show view -> >>>> other same NLP entry.) >>>> >>>> I think we should rename this categorization tag to something that >>>> uses >>>> the words Uima, and CasEditor - maybe it should be a 2 level >>>> categorization, the top one being UIMA (which already exists, and is >>>> used by the Component Descriptor Editor), and a then "CasEditor". >>>> >>>> WDYT? (What do you think)? >>>> >>> You are right Marshall, they should be renamed to something >>> which is appropriate now, the naming is a left over from the first >>> days of the Cas Editor. >>> >>> The reason they were not renamed yet for the 2.3.0 release is >>> that we should start a bigger refactoring effort to remove the project >>> model from the Cas Editor plugin and create a new plugin based on it >>> which helps users developing UIMA applications. A while >>> back we decided to do this after the 2.3.0 release. >>> >>> Changing the names is not a big deal, but we should take into account >>> that they >>> might be changed again for the release after 2.3.0. >>> >>> +1 for the naming you suggested. >>> >> If it's quick to do, maybe we should rename this for the 2.3.0 >> release. In any case, I think we need a paragraph in the >> documentation at the >> beginning to tell the user he needs to create a Cas Editor project using >> the wizard, before he can use the Cas Editor - that it only works in >> that context. >> > The names are defined in the plugin.xml file, renaming is quick, > but I am not sure if it is possible to define a UIMA category twice. > > The UIMA category is defined in the uimaj-ep-configurator plugin: > > <category > name="UIMA" > id="org.apache.uima.cpe.UIMA"> > </category> > > and in the Cas Editor it is defined like this: > <category name="NLP" id="org.apache.uima.caseditor.ui.wizards" /> > and for the views > <category id="org.apache.uima.caseditor.ui.views" name="NLP" /> > > we could simply rename NLP -> to UIMA, but then we might have two > categories with UIMA. Can you try this and see? (I'm hoping it might just work :-) ) > > To reuse the org.apache.uima.cpe.UIMA category I think the Cas Editor > must depend on uimaj-ep-configurator project. ugh... That would not be nice... > > What do you think about renaming "NLP" to "Cas Editor" and the Cas > Editor project > from "Project" to "Cas Editor Project" ? Sounds like a good idea to me. > > > Another option in my opinion is to move the UIMA category to the > runtime project, > maybe thats the right thing to do. I'm hoping that isn't necessary, though.
-Marshall > > Jörn > >
