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From: "Chen, Pei" <Pei.Chen@childrens.harvard.edu>
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Subject: InputSteam instead of java.io.File
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:49:58 +0000
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While working on the test cases in cTAKES, I've encountered couple of issue=
s and suggestions:

1)      File or Url.getRawPath() became problematic if they are read in fro=
m the jars from the classpath and which couldn't resolve to a physical File=
.

a.       Suggestion: Wherever possible, replace loading of resouces via jav=
a.io.File with InputStream instead.  . We can add a new method in the FileL=
ocator util and deprecate the old File method.

2)      Sentence Dectector is still using the OpenNLP 1.4 mechanism of load=
ing it's model file.

a.       Suggestion: Let's update it to use the new 1.5 way similar to POST=
agger.  (Remove non longer required classes: SuffixMaxentModelResourceImpl,=
 MaxentModelResource, SuffixSensitiveGISModelReader, classes etc.)

Background:
Certain unit tests fail because they can't be resolved via jars from the cl=
asspath because the code is explicitly looking for File on disk instead of =
input stream.  But in order to solve it appropriately, it had a cascading e=
ffect and required a lot more changes, but it's probably a good time to upd=
ate those projects anyhow.

--Pei


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