Hello Marshall, Thank you very much for your help and answer, sorry I didn't answer before. Your assupmtions were correct, I downloaded the binary package and I try to import the uimaj-examples into Eclipse, the problem was exactly the same as Molly's.
I tried to run them from eclipse, if I run the jars from the command line they work fine. I did ran the script to adjust the paths, and both the JAVA_HOME and the UIMA_HOME are set as environment variables. I had already tried add the uima-tools jar file as a external jar, yet with no results, I'll try that again. Anyway what finally worked for me was to download the UIMA source distibution and build it. I tried building it with maven from command line; I also imported it as a maven project to build it on Eclipse and they both seemed to work. I'm now able to run the tools and examples from eclipse. Again I thank you very much for your help and interest ;) Lothar On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> wrote: > Hi, > Sorry to hear of the startup troubles; I think they can be quickly > solved. Here > are some suggestions. > > The bottom line - I think the directions were written assuming you have two > Eclipse projects in your workspace, one for the uimaj-examples, and one > for the > uimaj-tools itself. This would be the case if you downloaded the source > distribution, unzipped (or untarred) it, and then used the Eclipse Import > to > "import existing Maven projects". > But there's a work around. Please read on... > > When you say you cannot run them, are you trying to run them via Eclipse > (run > menu), or the command line? > > It sounds like you may have downloaded the UIMA Java SDK "binary" package > and > unzipped or untarred it, is that correct? > Or did you download the source code, import it into Eclipse, and "built" > it? > > I'm guessing you may have done the "binary" package. In that case there > are a > couple of steps to do, described in the binary distribution's README - > scroll > down to the part about setting the Environment Variables JAVA_HOME and > UIMA_HOME, and running UIMA_HOME/bin/adjustExamplesPaths.bat (or .sh if on > linux). > > I know you said you set UIMA_HOME as an "Eclipse" variable, but did you > also set > it as an environment variable? > > If you're running from Eclipse, go to the run configuration ( menu -> run > -> run > configurations) and pick a tool, say for instance, the UIMA Document > Analyzer, > and click it once to "open" it. Then look at the "classpath" tab. On my > installation, it shows under "User Entries" two projects: "uimaj-tools" > and > "uimaj-examples". I suspect you only have an Eclipse Project for > "uimaj-examples", and are missing the one for uimaj-tools. > > You can fix this by clicking on "User Entries", and then on the right on > "Add > External Jars", and there add the uimaj-tools jar from the lib directory > in the > unzipped UIMA Binary distribution. > > If I've made wrong guesses about the details of your situation, please > respond > back with the corrected details :-) > > Good Luck! -Marshall > > On 5/22/2015 9:36 AM, Lothar Diefenbaker wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I recently become involved in a project with Apache UIMA. As I was > totally > > unfamiliar with it as I was to eclipse, so I started reading the > > documentation from the very beginning and I try to follow the tutorials. > > But a problem came up when I tried to configure Eclipse to work with > UIMA. > > I installed the UIMA plugins for eclipse from > > http://www.apache.org/dist/uima/eclipse-update-site, I followed all the > > steps in order to set it up, I added my UIMA_HOME to the Java Build Path > in > > Eclipse. I imported the uimaj-examples but I cannot run them, when I > tried > > to run any of the tools I get the Error: Could not find or load main > class > > org.apache.uima.tools.AnnotationViewerMain (for example this happens > when I > > tried to run the Annotation Viewer). I know this seems to be a path > > problem, so I checked the build path of the project and it does includes > > everything in my installation of UIMA, the lib is there with the jar of > the > > tools. My environment variables of %UIMA_HOME%, %JAVA_HOME% exist and > they > > hold as value the path of UIMA and JAVA respectively. I also included the > > lib directory of uima to the %CLASSPATH%, and the bin and lib directories > > of the uima to the %PATH%. > > > > I tried to make the tutorial of “My first Annotator”, I created the > > project RoomNumberAnnotator and followed the tutorial step by step. But > at > > the end when I tried to test it with the UIMA CAS Visual Debugger again I > > only got Error: Could not find or load main class > > org.apache.uima.tools.cvd.CVD since I cannot run the SDK tools from > > eclipse. I ran from the CVD from the console and it worked, and I loaded > > the analysis engine of RoomNumberAnnotator and it worked. Nevertheless I > > still cannot make it work from eclipse. > > > > I looked for information about this and I didn't find much, which makes > me > > think it's something too basic to solve to require help. Anyway I've been > > stuck with these days checking what can be wrong with my configurations > of > > java, eclipse, and classpaths. Please If someone could help me with some > > advise or hint to solve these it would be much appreciated. > > > > I'm running Eclipse Luna 4.4.2 with EMF tools and Maven (m2e), JDK > > 1.7.0_79, UIMA 2.7, all these over Ubuntu 14. > > > >
