[UIMA-857] Change startup of framework to support versioned Jars and simplified classpath

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3
• Component/s: Build, Packaging and Test
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 06/Mar/08 14:44
• Updated: 02/Oct/09 19:58
• Resolved: 10/Sep/09 18:46

Description

Our approach to the framework classpath is to (a) strip version info from our Jar names, and (b) have a setUimaClassPath script that adds lots of these (unversioned) jars to the classpath.

Other systems use a different approach - usually putting all the jars that should be in the classpath into a directory, and then having a small wrapper jar (with an unversioned name) that adds all the jars it finds in this dir to the classpath. (See for instance, ActiveMQ startup, or the way things like Tomcat work). Change UIMA to use this approach. (Not for 2.2.2, but for following release, perhaps).

Issue Links

• incorporates: UIMA-1390 UIMA should include a User Library containing all the necessary jars for Eclipse projects
• relates to: UIMA-1536 move RunWithJarPath into its own project