[UIMA-5712] uv3 have ComponentDescriptorEditor not load user JCas classes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0SDK
• Component/s: Eclipse plugins
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 29/Jan/18 17:24
• Updated: 29/Jan/18 19:21
• Resolved: 29/Jan/18 19:21

Description

Richard noticed that the Component Descriptor Editor (CDE) was loading user-defined JCas classes.  This may cause problems while editing, if the edits result in some structural change (super class inheritance for example) which invalidates the "offsets" assigned when JCas classes are loaded.

There's no need to load these classes, due to the running of the Component Descriptor Editor, because the only reason they were loaded in the first place was as part of Cas Creation, which  in turn was only done to "validate" the Component Descriptor, not to run it.

Add a capability to have the CDE create CASs without loading user-defined JCas classes.