[CTAKES-295] Use UIMAFit-style configuration annotations

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.3
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tim Miller
• Created: 15/Apr/14 21:49
• Updated: 30/Apr/15 20:12

Description

Instead of using xml-based configuration exclusively, UimaFit allows for java-based configuration in which the configuration parameters to an annotator are specified by java annotations in the code. If the annotators inherit from the UimaFit class JCasAnnotator_ImplBase the configurations are loaded by the initialize method automatically. This makes it easier to create pipelines on the fly for API users.