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| <title>Apache UIMA v3.0.0-beta Release Notes</title> |
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| <h1>Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) v3.0.0-beta Release Notes</h1> |
| |
| <h2>Contents</h2> |
| <p> |
| <a href="#beta">Beta release status notice</a><br/> |
| <a href="#what.is.uima">What is UIMA?</a><br/> |
| <a href="#major.changes">Major Changes in this Release</a><br/> |
| <a href="#get.involved">How to Get Involved</a><br/> |
| <a href="#report.issues">How to Report Issues</a><br/> |
| <a href="#list.issues">List of JIRA Issues Fixed in this Release</a><br/> |
| </p> |
| |
| <h2><a id="beta">0. Beta release status</a></h2> |
| <p>This is the Beta release of 3.0.0; the next release is planned to be |
| the official 3.0.0 release. The beta release is being done in order to expand the |
| community of people doing testing on this new release. |
| The APIs at this point are expected to be stable.</p> |
| |
| <h2><a id="what.is.uima">1. What is UIMA?</a></h2> |
| |
| <p> |
| Unstructured Information Management applications are |
| software systems that analyze large volumes of |
| unstructured information in order to discover knowledge |
| that is relevant to an end user. UIMA is a framework and |
| SDK for developing such applications. An example UIM |
| application might ingest plain text and identify |
| entities, such as persons, places, organizations; or |
| relations, such as works-for or located-at. UIMA enables |
| such an application to be decomposed into components, |
| for example "language identification" -> "language |
| specific segmentation" -> "sentence boundary |
| detection" -> "entity detection (person/place names |
| etc.)". Each component must implement interfaces defined |
| by the framework and must provide self-describing |
| metadata via XML descriptor files. The framework manages |
| these components and the data flow between them. |
| Components are written in Java or C++; the data that |
| flows between components is designed for efficient |
| mapping between these languages. UIMA additionally |
| provides capabilities to wrap components as network |
| services, and can scale to very large volumes by |
| replicating processing pipelines over a cluster of |
| networked nodes. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Apache UIMA is an Apache-licensed open source |
| implementation of the UIMA specification (that |
| specification is, in turn, being developed concurrently |
| by a technical committee within |
| <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org">OASIS</a>, |
| a standards organization). We invite and encourage you |
| to participate in both the implementation and |
| specification efforts. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| UIMA is a component framework for analysing unstructured |
| content such as text, audio and video. It comprises an |
| SDK and tooling for composing and running analytic |
| components written in Java and C++, with some support |
| for Perl, Python and TCL. |
| </p> |
| |
| <h2><a id="major.changes">Major Changes in this Release</a></h2> |
| |
| <p>Version 3 is a major reimplementation of the internals of |
| the Java version of UIMA to support better integration with |
| Java 8, alignment with modern memory hierarchies for |
| better performance, and multiple functional enhancements and |
| improvements.</p> |
| <p> |
| If non-built-in JCas cover classes are being used, |
| a one-time regeneration or migration step is required for these. |
| Please read the Version 3 users guide located in the docs directory |
| for information on these changes and the migration tool which can |
| aid in migrating existing JCas class definitions. |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>A very brief summary of Version 3:</p> |
| <ul><li>Feature Structures become Java Objects, |
| subject to Garbage Collection, just like any other objects, |
| when no longer reachable.</li> |
| <li>Iterating over indexes no longer throws |
| ConcurrentModificationException.</li> |
| <li>Support for arbitrary Java Objects in the CAS, |
| using special custom implementations of JCas cover classes for those.</li> |
| <li>Using the above new capability, new semi-built-ins for three new types: ArrayList style |
| lists of Feature Structures and ints, and an FSHashSet</li> |
| <li>New "select" framework for flexible |
| access to Feature Structures, that can ignore typeOrdering keys in indexes.</li> |
| <li>Integration with Java 8 facilities such as Streams</li> |
| <li>Logging framework upgraded, supporting embedding UIMA in other frameworks using |
| popular logging APIs</li> |
| <li>There are many performance improvements</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| |
| <p>Please read the Version 3 users guide for more details.</p> |
| |
| <p>Specific changes in this release versus the previous alpha02 release include</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>The use of generic typing was improved. |
| <li>Fixed the Eclipse launcher in the examples project that's part of the binary distribution to properly |
| launch the v3-migration tool.</li> |
| <li>The UIMA built-in arrays and lists implement iterable and stream, with appropriate capabilities |
| for generic type specification.</li> |
| <li>Eclipse plugins are now Jar-signed.</li> |
| <li>Renamed some methods to create UIMA arrays and lists from createFromArray to create</li> |
| <li>Added missing methods to logger interface to support Supplier argument.</li> |
| <li>The launchers for the normal UIMA Tooling default to specifying the built-in-to-Java logging framework.</li> |
| <li>The launchers were modified to support Java-style wild-card notation in the classpath.</li> |
| <li>Fix for permissions on Linux for API Change Report.</li> |
| <li>Restore a v2 method needed for backwards compatibility</li> |
| <li>Improve the migration tool's use of classpath and error reporting</li> |
| <li>Changes in the support for External Override Settings location were incorporated</li> |
| <li>Fixes incorporated into UIMA 2.10.1 are included.</li> |
| <li>Made JCas loading more permissive - no longer need to have the type system committed before loading</li> |
| <li>JCasGen - add missing imports</li> |
| <li>renamed the methods for getting empty UIMA arrays and lists to emptyXxxx form</li> |
| <li>add methods supporting extended-for over all FSs in views</li> |
| <li>several bugs fixed - see issues fixed, for all issues after 18 Sept 2017</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| |
| <h3>API changes</h3> |
| <p>There is an API compatibility report covering the non-internal APIs; |
| see <a href="api-change-report.html">change report</a> for the list of API changes |
| since version 2.10.1. |
| </p> |
| |
| <h2><a id="list.issues">Full list of JIRA Issues affecting this Release</a></h2> |
| Click <a href="issuesFixed/jira-report.html">issuesFixed/jira-report.hmtl</a> for the list of |
| issues affecting this release. |
| |
| <h2><a id="beta">Beta Release</a></h2> |
| <p>This is a beta release of version 3.0.0, being made to get |
| wider community involvement in testing and feedback. |
| At this point, the APIs are not expected to change, and features |
| should be frozen.</p> |
| |
| <p>Please use the mailing lists |
| ( http://uima.apache.org/mail-lists.html ) |
| for feedback.</p> |
| |
| <h2><a id="get.involved">How to Get Involved</a></h2> |
| <p> |
| The Apache UIMA project really needs and appreciates any contributions, |
| including documentation help, source code and feedback. If you are interested |
| in contributing, please visit |
| <a href="http://uima.apache.org/get-involved.html"> |
| http://uima.apache.org/get-involved.html</a>. |
| </p> |
| |
| <h2><a id="report.issues">How to Report Issues</a></h2> |
| <p> |
| The Apache UIMA project uses JIRA for issue tracking. Please report any |
| issues you find at |
| <a href="http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/uima">http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/uima</a> |
| </p> |
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