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Subject: Re: using Scala for opennlp.ml
From: Aliaksandr Autayeu <aliaksandr@autayeu.com>
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>> Having some sort of plugin architecture would be possible and probably
>> quite nice, though it probably would not be my first priority.
>
> Being able to take advantage of other classifiers seems like it would be =
a really nice thing to be able to do. =C2=A0I'd love to put OpenNLP over Ma=
hout or others.
>
> Besides, for testing purposes, if you could plugin the existing capabilit=
y versus your new rewrite (in Scala) then you could easily compare the two.=
 =C2=A0I can't imagine the abstraction layer is more than a few interfaces =
or abstract classes plus a bit of configuration/injection/fill in the blank=
 that allows one to specify the implementation.
+1 for all of the above.

Aliaksandr