How to connect to UIMA SOAP interface using NON-Java Application.

[Sanjeev Kumar Rana <ra...@gmail.com>]

Hi, 
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but I am kind of
stuck and so here is my query. I have UIMA-JAVA version running as a stand alone
vinci service. My Client program is a c++ program from which I want to call the
UIMA, But I don't want to use JNI. I read in the documentation that UIMA has a
soap interface but even if I run UIMA with a soap interface, how would I create
the soap request in my client. I could not use UIMA c++ version, as I have to
use sun-studio compiler to which uima c++ version is not ported. According my
understanding, I could connect to UIMA interface and get the request as long as
I am able to create the soap request. 
Kindly help or point me in the right direction. 
Thanks, 
Sanjeev.

Re: How to connect to UIMA SOAP interface using NON-Java Application.

[Eddie Epstein <ea...@gmail.com>]

Sanjeev,

uimacpp depends on several other projects: APR, Xerces, AMQCPP and ICU.
If these prerequisites can be built for the sun platform, and it the
gnu build tools
(automake, autoconf and libtool) all work on sun too, it should not be hard to
get uimacpp to build there too.

Eddie

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Sanjeev Kumar Rana
<ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Eddie,
> Thanks for reply. I was wondering why UIMA was not ported using sun-studio
> compilers and Why was it restricted to gnu compiler. In-fact when I try to
> compile, it gives error saying that it's not ported to host os.
> Thanks,
> Sanjeev
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: How to connect to UIMA SOAP interface using NON-Java Application.

[Sanjeev Kumar Rana <ra...@gmail.com>]

Eddie Epstein <ea...@...> writes:

> 
> The SOAP interface to UIMA services is quite complicated and not
> suited for what you want. The request includes the full CAS definition
> as well as the CAS request, both using Java-specific binary
> serialization.
> 
> The simplest service request format is for a UIMA AS service, which
> uses JMS and an XMI format. There are C++ APIs to JMS (see the UIMA
> C++ code for an example) and it is possible to create a non-UIMA
> client to make valid service requests and parse the responses.
> 
> There are C++ interfaces to Vinci so it is also possible to create a
> non-UIMA C++ client to a UIMA Vinci service using the older XCAS
> format. There is much less expertise around to help with this
> approach.
> 
> Eddie



Hi Eddie,
Thanks for reply. I was wondering why UIMA was not ported using sun-studio
compilers and Why was it restricted to gnu compiler. In-fact when I try to
compile, it gives error saying that it's not ported to host os.
Thanks, 
Sanjeev

Re: How to connect to UIMA SOAP interface using NON-Java Application.

[Eddie Epstein <ea...@gmail.com>]

The SOAP interface to UIMA services is quite complicated and not
suited for what you want. The request includes the full CAS definition
as well as the CAS request, both using Java-specific binary
serialization.

The simplest service request format is for a UIMA AS service, which
uses JMS and an XMI format. There are C++ APIs to JMS (see the UIMA
C++ code for an example) and it is possible to create a non-UIMA
client to make valid service requests and parse the responses.

There are C++ interfaces to Vinci so it is also possible to create a
non-UIMA C++ client to a UIMA Vinci service using the older XCAS
format. There is much less expertise around to help with this
approach.

Eddie

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Sanjeev Kumar Rana <ra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but I am kind of
> stuck and so here is my query. I have UIMA-JAVA version running as a stand alone
> vinci service. My Client program is a c++ program from which I want to call the
> UIMA, But I don't want to use JNI. I read in the documentation that UIMA has a
> soap interface but even if I run UIMA with a soap interface, how would I create
> the soap request in my client. I could not use UIMA c++ version, as I have to
> use sun-studio compiler to which uima c++ version is not ported. According my
> understanding, I could connect to UIMA interface and get the request as long as
> I am able to create the soap request.
> Kindly help or point me in the right direction.
> Thanks,
> Sanjeev.
>
>
>