[UIMA-3094] createEngine() and createEngineDescription() factory methods

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0uimaFIT
• Component/s: uimaFIT
• Assignee: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
• Created: 20/Jul/13 15:20
• Updated: 20/Jul/13 19:11
• Resolved: 20/Jul/13 19:11

Description

Instead of the createAggregate(), createPrimitive(), createAggregateDescription() and createPrimitiveDescription() methods, there should be more generic methods:

createEngine() - should cover all current createAggregate(), createPrimitive() methods and also allow to create an aggregate AE from a variadic list of descriptors
createEngineDescription() - should cover all createAggregateDescription(), createPrimitiveDescription() methods

See also: https://code.google.com/p/uimafit/issues/detail?id=105

Instead of removing the existing methods, they should only be deprecated for now to ease the transition.