[UIMA-4179] reduce java object creation around Sofa info

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.7.0SDK
• Component/s: Core Java Framework
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 13/Jan/15 20:17
• Updated: 13/Jan/15 22:20
• Resolved: 13/Jan/15 22:20

Description

In many places, the sofa is obtained, and then some value of that is obtained. Each time this is done, unless low level APIs are used, a Java cover object (either the JCas Sofa, or the non-JCas Java cover object) is created (or looked up and fetched from a cache if the JCas cache is in use). This is unneeded; switch these to using the low level APIs unless there's a good reason to create the Java cover object.