[SOLR-11694] Remove extremely outdated UIMA contrib module

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Fix Version/s: 7.5, 8.0
• Component/s: contrib - UIMA
• Assignee: Alexandre Rafalovitch
• Reporter: Cassandra Targett
• Created: 28/Nov/17 21:29
• Updated: 08/Jun/19 15:11
• Resolved: 08/Jul/18 13:59

Description

A user on the solr-user mailing list back in June brought up the fact that IBM has bought Alchemy and keys are no longer available to use Solr's UIMA contrib.

Someone recently made a similar comment to the Solr Ref Guide page and asking for a patch.

I know next to nothing about UIMA, but figured it's worth an issue to determine what to do here. I think folks are saying it's no longer usable? Or maybe only usable by people who already have keys (which will possibly expire at some point)?

Anyone have an idea what needs to be done here? It seems we should have some kind of answer, but if it's no longer usable perhaps we should retire the contrib.

Issue Links

• is related to: SOLR-10318 Make sure Solr UIMA example configuration is working
• supercedes: SOLR-3736 UIMA requires commons-beanutils
• supercedes: SOLR-3049 UpdateRequestProcessorChain for UIMA : runtimeParameters: not all types supported
• supercedes: SOLR-3306 Possibility to specify proxy settings for http-transport
• supercedes: SOLR-2501 [contrib/uima] Make it possible to load AE descriptors both from filesystem and classpath
• supercedes: SOLR-3014 Improve UIMA UpdateRequestProcessor performances by providing UIMA-AS support
• supercedes: SOLR-10318 Make sure Solr UIMA example configuration is working
• supercedes: SOLR-4428 Update SolrUIMA wiki page