Setting environment variables for RASP on UIMA

[Nishanth <ni...@gmail.com>]

I am not able to run RASP3 on UIMA using RASP4UIMA. This seems to be a problem
with setting environment variables. I have extracted RASP3 from the iLexIR
download, got UIMA binaries, installed RASP PEAR file as described in the RASP
website.

RASP4UIMA says:

    RASP4UIMA relies on a system environment (rasp.home) to determine where the
original RASP executables are located. See $RASP4UIMA/metadata/setenv.txt for
more details.

    Make sure you specify the location of RASP with -Drasp.home when you call
the UIMA executables. For instance, if you want to run your component in the
Collection Processing Engine Configurator GUI application, you need to add the
environment variables settings from the component's setenv.txt file to the
cpeGui.bat (cpeGui.sh) script file in the /bin directory. Alternatively you can
add this information to the setUimaClassPath script.

I tried running cpeGui.sh (which is the configurator for collection processing
engine) with CLASSPATH set to the jar file of RASP4UIMA install. I have also
configured it with descriptors and Analysis engines as described on the page.

I get the following error:

    org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException:Initialization of
CAS Processor with name "SentenceSplitter" failed ... Annotator class
"com.digitalpebble.rasp.splitter.SentenceSplitter" was not found. ...

Please help me out on the following issues (as I am new to Linux):

    Elaborate the quoted documentation (on what rasp.home variable should be set
to and how to set rasp.home and rasp.debug variables present in setenv.txt of
RASP4UIMA PEAR install)

    Do I run setUimaClassPath.sh (a UIMA binary) separately or call it in
cpeGui.sh (as this file doesnt seem to be called anywhere) if I were to set
rasp.home variable in setUimaClassPath.sh ?

Re: Maven Pear Packaging Problem

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

On 7/2/2012 3:55 PM, Matthias Eckert wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an odd problem with packaging a simple Annotator into a Pear with maven
> (via $mvn package).

I am not familiar with "$mvn package".  Is this the standard Maven system
running the "package" goal, that normally would be run with the command line
"mvn package" (same as yours, except without the leading "$") executed in the
directory containing the pom file you want to run it against?

What was the pom that you were running against?

-Marshall

> After its been packed, the path of the descriptor specified in the install.xml
> has TWO $main_root in front.
> Before packing there's only one. Or it could even be none, it doesn't matter.
>
> To substantiate:
>
> BEFORE CASE 1:
>     <SUBMITTED_COMPONENT>
>         <ID>EMailAnnotator</ID>
>         <NAME></NAME>
> <DESC>$main_root/desc/EMailAnnotatorDescriptor.xml</DESC>
>         <DEPLOYMENT>standard</DEPLOYMENT>
>     </SUBMITTED_COMPONENT>
>
> BEFORE CASE 2:
>     <SUBMITTED_COMPONENT>
>         <ID>EMailAnnotator</ID>
>         <NAME></NAME>
>         <DESC>desc/EMailAnnotatorDescriptor.xml</DESC>
>         <DEPLOYMENT>standard</DEPLOYMENT>
>     </SUBMITTED_COMPONENT>
>
> AFTER $mvn package:
>     <SUBMITTED_COMPONENT>
>         <ID>EMailAnnotator</ID>
>         <NAME></NAME>
> <DESC>$main_root/$main_root/desc/EMailAnnotatorDescriptor.xml</DESC>
>         <DEPLOYMENT>standard</DEPLOYMENT>
>     </SUBMITTED_COMPONENT>
>
>
> I'm new to UIMA, so it could be a stupid mistake or also maybe more. So please
> help me.
> Thx & best regards,
> Matthias
>

Maven Pear Packaging Problem

[Matthias Eckert <ma...@uni-jena.de>]

Hello,
I have an odd problem with packaging a simple Annotator into a Pear with 
maven (via $mvn package).
After its been packed, the path of the descriptor specified in the 
install.xml has TWO $main_root in front.
Before packing there's only one. Or it could even be none, it doesn't 
matter.

To substantiate:

BEFORE CASE 1:
     <SUBMITTED_COMPONENT>
         <ID>EMailAnnotator</ID>
         <NAME></NAME>
<DESC>$main_root/desc/EMailAnnotatorDescriptor.xml</DESC>
         <DEPLOYMENT>standard</DEPLOYMENT>
     </SUBMITTED_COMPONENT>

BEFORE CASE 2:
     <SUBMITTED_COMPONENT>
         <ID>EMailAnnotator</ID>
         <NAME></NAME>
         <DESC>desc/EMailAnnotatorDescriptor.xml</DESC>
         <DEPLOYMENT>standard</DEPLOYMENT>
     </SUBMITTED_COMPONENT>

AFTER $mvn package:
     <SUBMITTED_COMPONENT>
         <ID>EMailAnnotator</ID>
         <NAME></NAME>
<DESC>$main_root/$main_root/desc/EMailAnnotatorDescriptor.xml</DESC>
         <DEPLOYMENT>standard</DEPLOYMENT>
     </SUBMITTED_COMPONENT>


I'm new to UIMA, so it could be a stupid mistake or also maybe more. So 
please help me.
Thx & best regards,
Matthias