[jira] Resolved: (UIMA-352) Allow custom service adapters to be plugged in

["Adam Lally (JIRA)" <ui...@incubator.apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-352?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Adam Lally resolved UIMA-352.
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    Resolution: Fixed

> Allow custom service adapters to be plugged in
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: UIMA-352
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-352
>             Project: UIMA
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Core Java Framework
>            Reporter: Adam Lally
>         Assigned To: Adam Lally
>             Fix For: 2.2
>
>
> Currently there's no easy way to plug in an additional kind of service
> adapter (to support a protocol other than SOAP or Vinci).  UIMA
> already has the foundation for pluggable adapters, with its use of
> descriptors and factory methods that produce Resource objects (like
> AnalysisEngines) from descriptors.  But we've never provided a way for
> users to plug in their own adapter classes without editing internal
> framework configuration files.  Here's a simple suggestion that would
> change that:
> We could add a new ResourceSpecifier (descriptor) type:
> <customResourceSpecifier xmlns="http://uima.apache.org/resourceSpecifier">
>        <resourceClassName>com.foo.MyCustomServiceAdapter</resourceClassName>
>        <parameters>
>                <parameter name="serviceEndpoint" value="hostname:port"/>
>                ...
>        </parameters>
> </customResourceSpecifier>
> The <resourceClassName> specifies the exact name of some user class
> which must be located on the classpath (the UIMA extension classpath
> will work, if provided).  That class must implement the UIMA Resource
> interface (for an AE service adapter it would also have to implement
> the AnalysisEngine interface).  The Resource interface provides a
> method initialize(ResouceSpecifier,Map) which the factory calls and
> passes the resource specifier.  The user would implement the
> initialize method to read the <parameters> and set itself up.
> All the basic support for this is already there.  It's relatively easy
> to add a new kind of ResourceSpecifier and the associated factory for
> instantiating the Resource from the specifier.  Then there would be
> the documentation about how to implement your resource class, which
> would be a little more work.

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