[UIMA-1302] PerformanceReports for PEAR not being generated in a CPE

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.3
• Component/s: Collection Processing
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kevin Cunnane
• Created: 26/Mar/09 11:51
• Updated: 29/Aug/09 13:16
• Resolved: 29/Aug/09 13:16

Description

When an installed PEAR is included as an AE in a Collection Processing Engine, the performance report generated by the CPE doesn't include any figures for the PEAR. The only work-around is to install the pear and then reference the AE descriptor directly, however this ruins the entire point of using the PEAR - it automatically sets the classpath, datapath etc for you. I discussed this issue with Thilo Goetz, who said I should raise a bug against it. Please see correspondence below about this issue with Thilo.

My Message:
Hi Thilo,

I work for the LanguageWare team in Dublin, and am having an issue getting performance numbers for PEARs used in a Collection Processing Engine. Essentially, when you refer to the PEAR using the pearSpecifier file, then the performance of the PEAR is not included in the Performance Report. However, if you run the PEAR by referring to its main descriptor directly (and setting up the classpath etc manually) you will correctly get the performance of the components in the PEAR included in the performance report.

Am I doing something wrong, or is there a way to work around this? For example, is this just an issue when using PEARs in a CPE, or can I get the information some other way? I'm trying to set up an automated process for testing the performance of a PEAR against a corpus, and would like to avoid having to write code / scripts for this

His Responses:
Hi Kevin,

that issue somehow seems familiar. I've looked into those PerformanceReports because of another bug I found, and I think I noticed this, too (http://www.mail-archive.com/uima-dev%40incubator.apache.org/msg06565.html). So I think this is a UIMA issue, due to the special nature of pear descriptors (they are not regular AE descriptors). So the only workaround I can think of at this time is to not use pears, or install the pear and then reference the AE descriptor directly, if that's possible.

Related Posts
I found this post http://markmail.org/message/doknwh5iecuhtai3 that seems to refer to the exact same issue

Issue Links

• duplicates: UIMA-1467 PearAnalysisEngineWrapper should forward remaining methods in its interfaces to the contained AE including reconfigure and management interfaces