[ANNOUNCE] Apache UIMA-AS 2.4.0 released

[Jaroslaw Cwiklik <cw...@apache.org>]

The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of version 2.4.0 of
the Apache UIMA AS, which includes asynchronous scaleout capabilities
for the UIMA annotators.

The UIMA AS 2.4.0 binaries and source are available for download from:
http://uima.apache.org/downloads.cgi

UIMA AS includes the base UIMA SDK and augments it with scaleout
capability; it is a next-generation replacement for the original CPM
(Collection Processing Management)
scaleout that is part of the core UIMA framework. For more information,
please visit:
http://uima.apache.org/doc-uimaas-what.html

This release contains a number of improvements and bug fixes. Notable
updates in this release include:

  - Added support for programmatic generation of deployment descriptors

  - Fixed UIMA-AS client to work with user supplied CR

  - Fixed UIMA-AS Aggregate to block listener thread until a CAS is
processed

  - Supports securing ActiveMQ connection with application provided
credentials

  - Modified UIMA-AS client to handle InterruptedException while blocking
in sendAndReceive()

  - Added support to collect AE performance breakdown and return it along
with a reply

  - Fixed a bug to prevent a parent CAS from accessing its Flow object
until all child CASes
    obtain their Flow objects.

  - Expanded UIMA-AS client API to include a callback containing
information where a CAS
    is being processed (host IP, PID and thread ID)

  - Improved error handling and stability

For a complete list of bugs and improvements included in this release
please see
http://uima.apache.org/d/uima-as-2.4.0/issuesFixed/jira-report.html.

-- Jerry Cwiklik, for the Apache UIMA Development Team