[ANNOUNCE] Apache UIMA Java SDK 3.0.0-beta released

[Marshall Schor <sc...@apache.org>]

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The Apache UIMA team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache UIMA Java
SDK, version 3.0.0-beta.  This is a beta release, and is intended
to have stable user-facing APIs and enable a wider set of users to test this
version and give feedback.  

Apache UIMA <http://uima.apache.org> is a component architecture and framework
for the analysis of unstructured content like text, video and audio data.

This release is a major rewrite of the internals of core UIMA, and
includes many new features, including:
 -- support for arbitrary Java objects in the CAS
 -- New semi-built-in UIMA types: FSArrayList, FSHashSet, IntegerArrayList
 -- New "select" framework integrated with Java 8 Streams
 -- Elimination of concurrent modification exception
      while iterating over UIMA indexes
 -- Automatic Garbage Collection of unreferenced Feature Structures
 -- All around better integration into Java 8 idioms and generic typing

The major changes from the alpha02 release include
  - improved generic typing and better Java 8 idiom integration
  - Eclipse JARs are now Jar-signed
  - Many small bug fixes, improvements, better error reporting

See the UIMA News <https://uima.apache.org/news.html#09 Nov 2017> item (
https://uima.apache.org/news.html#09 Nov 2017 ) for more details.

A full description of the new and changed parts is here:
http://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-3.0.0-beta/version_3_users_guide.html

This release requires Java 8, and is intended to be backwards compatible with
existing Version 2 pipeline code, except for the need to regenerate or migrate
(tooling provided) user-defined JCas class definitions.

Please send feedback via the Apache UIMA project mailing lists.

 -Marshall Schor, for the Apache UIMA development team
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