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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:43:56 -0400
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Subject: Re: Dependency Injection support?
From: Alex Chaphiv <achaphiv@gmail.com>
To: user@uima.apache.org
Cc: tommaso.teofili@gmail.com
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Hey,

Thanks for the response.

I actually have been using uimaFIT.  And while it provides a lot of
convenience, it only uses spring as detailed here:
http://code.google.com/p/uimafit/issues/detail?id=40

The library allows you to use @ExternalResource annotations to have
dependencies "injected", but each dependency requires a separate
ExternalResourceLocator (the uimaFIT convenience wrapper for UIMA's
Resource) implementation, and still doesn't solve the dependency resolution
issue between dependencies.

I suppose I was hoping for some kind of magic in UIMA AS.

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Tommaso Teofili
<tommaso.teofili@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Alex,
> I think you could take inspiration from the (Spring based) DI support in
> uimaFIT [1], even if, personally, I'd recommend the use of Guice instead of
> Spring.
> My 2 cents,
> Tommaso
>
> [1] : http://code.google.com/p/uimafit/
>
> 2011/3/18 Alex Chaphiv <achaphiv@gmail.com>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have several annotators that require objects that are rather complex to
>> build.
>>  I've been able to get around this using by using ExternalResources with
>> custom
>> api interfaces, but it requires a lot of boilerplate and doesn't allow for
>> sharing of dependencies between ExternalResources.
>>
>> So what would be the best way to get around this?  Even better, is there
>> any
>> support for Spring or Guice?
>>
>>
>

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