diff --git a/examples/tutorial/descriptors/Deploy_MeetingAnnotator.xml b/examples/tutorial/descriptors/Deploy_MeetingAnnotator.xml
index e07ab28..d0070d3 100644
--- a/examples/tutorial/descriptors/Deploy_MeetingAnnotator.xml
+++ b/examples/tutorial/descriptors/Deploy_MeetingAnnotator.xml
@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@
        <import location="MeetingAnnotatorCPP.xml"/>
       </topDescriptor>
       <environmentVariables>
-       <!-- Add the location of the MeetingAnnotator to the library search path -->
-       <!-- Note that PATH must be uppercase for Windows -->
+       <!-- Add the location of the MeetingAnnotator to the library search path. -->
+       <!-- For ease of testing do so for all platforms and use relative paths.  -->
        <environmentVariable name="Path">src</environmentVariable>
        <environmentVariable name="LD_LIBRARY_PATH">src</environmentVariable>
        <environmentVariable name="DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH">src</environmentVariable>
-       <environmentVariable name="UIMACPP_DATAPATH">C:/mydata</environmentVariable>
+       <environmentVariable name="UIMACPP_DATAPATH">mydata</environmentVariable>
 	</environmentVariables>
     </service>
   </deployment>