Mailing-List: contact uima-user-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: uima-user@incubator.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of brainiac86@gmail.com
 designates 209.85.219.220 as permitted sender)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
        d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
        h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type;
        b=pHxoBCUBl+MtNi2mcWnWYXWsvfq9SrytReg2W7oZdvb0tzHuvH6a86N3VjrNtNniOj
         gQJXKH1MmJPE8hK6h2xxb3NCgCjrcYAfbX/JgOU0wBmmuv25u5R4gaCzm29DB1dexT6d
         1W15mX9ao6CtzhH8RT2ETWezvvTcogHbQCkV0=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:48:03 -0800
Message-ID: <3c77b7840912161648x42496e8ah7b275ba9de357318@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Extent of resource management memory sharing
From: Anton Shuster <brainiac86@gmail.com>
To: uima-user@incubator.apache.org
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e6d56698c6e15d047ae1f95b

--0016e6d56698c6e15d047ae1f95b
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Hello all,

It seems the advantage of using the resource management features of UIMA is
the ability for annotators to use the same instance of a resource interface
in memory. However, from the description in the manual it seems that this
may be only possible when all the annotators that use the same resource are
in the same aggregate analysis engine descriptor. Is this true?

In particular, what happens if the annotators are loaded separately (using
their respective descriptors where each one declares the same resource and
binds it to the same interface)? Do they share memory for the interface? Or
will there be two instances of the resource? Is it possible to make them
share memory?

Thanks!
--Anton

--0016e6d56698c6e15d047ae1f95b--