[CTAKES-328] Clean up XML Annotator Descriptors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Affects Version/s: 3.2.0
• Fix Version/s: future enhancement, 4.0.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Pei Chen
• Created: 04/Nov/14 22:16
• Updated: 30/Dec/22 23:26
• Resolved: 30/Dec/22 23:26

Description

Currently, there is a slew of manually maintained xml primitive as well as aggregate xml descriptors. It would be nice if we can clean those up and have defaults auto-generated by uimaFIT during build/test time.

Throwing out the idea:
1) JCasAnnotator base interface to force new Annotators to have a .createAnnotationDescription()
2) Delete all current /desc/*/.xml descriptors
3) Create a mechanism that will automatically create the primitive xml descriptor. As well as the AggregateDefault one.