Hi Niloofar,

> I wante to ask what BeginIngestionTaskServlet class inside
> "cas.curation.servlet" is and when and by whom it is invoked?

The BeginIngestionTaskServlet was the original class we wrote for the eventual 
IngestionResource (pre JAX-RS in the curator). We left a bunch of the old 
servlet classes in there and likely need to clean them up.

> 
> Another question is: what means curation? (or what is cas.curation?)

The best explanation I can come up with is pointing you to this special issue 
of Nature magazine and its articles that explain what curation is:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7209/

And this article:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7209/full/455047a.html

Cheers,
Chris

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