Extent of resource management memory sharing

[Anton Shuster <br...@gmail.com>]

Hello all,

It seems the advantage of using the resource management features of UIMA is
the ability for annotators to use the same instance of a resource interface
in memory. However, from the description in the manual it seems that this
may be only possible when all the annotators that use the same resource are
in the same aggregate analysis engine descriptor. Is this true?

In particular, what happens if the annotators are loaded separately (using
their respective descriptors where each one declares the same resource and
binds it to the same interface)? Do they share memory for the interface? Or
will there be two instances of the resource? Is it possible to make them
share memory?

Thanks!
--Anton