uimaFIT 1.0.0 released

[Philip V Ogren <Ph...@Colorado.EDU>]

We are pleased to announce the release of uimaFIT 1.0.0 - a library that 
provides factories, injection, and testing utilities for UIMA.  The 
following list highlights some of the features uimaFIT provides:

  * Factories: simplify instantiating UIMA components programmatically 
without descriptor files.  For example, to instantiate an AnalysisEngine 
a call like this could be made:
         AnalysisEngineFactory.createPrimitive(MyAEImpl.class, 
myTypeSystem, paramName, paramValue)
  * Injection: handles the binding of configuration parameter values to 
the corresponding member variables in the analysis engines and handles 
the binding of external resources.  For example, to bind a configuration 
parameter just annotate a member variable with @ConfigurationParameter.  
Then add one line of code to your initialize method - 
ConfigurationParameterInitializer.initialize(this, uimaContext).  This 
is handled automatically if you extend the uimaFIT 
JCasAnnotator_ImplBase class.
  * Testing: uimaFIT simplifies testing in a number of ways described in 
the documentation.  By making it easy to instantiate your components 
without descriptor files a large amount of difficult-to-maintain and 
unnecessary XML can be eliminated from your test code.   This makes 
tests easier to write and maintain.  Also, running components as a 
pipeline can be accomplished with a method call like this:  
SimplePipeline.runPipeline(reader, ae1, ..., aeN, consumer1, ... consumerN)

uimaFIT is licensed with Apache Software License 2.0 and is available 
from Google Code at:

http://uimafit.googlecode.com
http://code.google.com/p/uimafit/wiki/Documentation

uimaFIT is available via Maven Central.  If you use maven for your build 
environment, then you can add uimaFIT as a dependency to your pom.xml 
file with the following:

<dependency>
<groupId>org.uimafit</groupId>
<artifactId>uimafit</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

uimaFIT is a collaborative effort between the Center for Computational 
Pharmacology at the University of Colorado Denver, the Center for 
Computational Language and Education Research at the University of 
Colorado at Boulder, and the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab 
at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.  uimaFIT is extensively used by 
projects being developed by these groups.

The uimaFIT development team is:

Philip Ogren, University of Colorado, USA
Richard Eckart de Castilho, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Steven Bethard, Stanford University, USA

with contributions from Fabio Mancinelli, Chris Roeder, Philipp Wetzler, 
and Torsten Zesch.

Please address questions to uimafit-users@googlegroups.com.  uimaFIT 
requires Java 1.5 or higher and UIMA 2.3.0 or higher.

Re: uimaFIT 1.0.0 released

[Philip Ogren <ph...@ogren.info>]

apologies for multiple postings to the list - I sent this message twice 
from the wrong email account and then sent it again from the account 
that is registered to this list.  my bad...

On 7/16/2010 3:41 PM, Philip V Ogren wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the release of uimaFIT 1.0.0 - a library 
> that provides factories, injection, and testing utilities for UIMA.  
> The following list highlights some of the features uimaFIT provides:
>
>  * Factories: simplify instantiating UIMA components programmatically 
> without descriptor files.  For example, to instantiate an 
> AnalysisEngine a call like this could be made:
>         AnalysisEngineFactory.createPrimitive(MyAEImpl.class, 
> myTypeSystem, paramName, paramValue)
>  * Injection: handles the binding of configuration parameter values to 
> the corresponding member variables in the analysis engines and handles 
> the binding of external resources.  For example, to bind a 
> configuration parameter just annotate a member variable with 
> @ConfigurationParameter.  Then add one line of code to your initialize 
> method - ConfigurationParameterInitializer.initialize(this, 
> uimaContext).  This is handled automatically if you extend the uimaFIT 
> JCasAnnotator_ImplBase class.
>  * Testing: uimaFIT simplifies testing in a number of ways described 
> in the documentation.  By making it easy to instantiate your 
> components without descriptor files a large amount of 
> difficult-to-maintain and unnecessary XML can be eliminated from your 
> test code.   This makes tests easier to write and maintain.  Also, 
> running components as a pipeline can be accomplished with a method 
> call like this:  SimplePipeline.runPipeline(reader, ae1, ..., aeN, 
> consumer1, ... consumerN)
>
> uimaFIT is licensed with Apache Software License 2.0 and is available 
> from Google Code at:
>
> http://uimafit.googlecode.com
> http://code.google.com/p/uimafit/wiki/Documentation
>
> uimaFIT is available via Maven Central.  If you use maven for your 
> build environment, then you can add uimaFIT as a dependency to your 
> pom.xml file with the following:
>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>org.uimafit</groupId>
> <artifactId>uimafit</artifactId>
> <version>1.0.0</version>
> </dependency>
>
> uimaFIT is a collaborative effort between the Center for Computational 
> Pharmacology at the University of Colorado Denver, the Center for 
> Computational Language and Education Research at the University of 
> Colorado at Boulder, and the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab 
> at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.  uimaFIT is extensively used 
> by projects being developed by these groups.
>
> The uimaFIT development team is:
>
> Philip Ogren, University of Colorado, USA
> Richard Eckart de Castilho, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
> Steven Bethard, Stanford University, USA
>
> with contributions from Fabio Mancinelli, Chris Roeder, Philipp 
> Wetzler, and Torsten Zesch.
>
> Please address questions to uimafit-users@googlegroups.com.  uimaFIT 
> requires Java 1.5 or higher and UIMA 2.3.0 or higher.
>
>
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