Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-uima-user-archive@locus.apache.org Received: (qmail 66365 invoked from network); 29 Aug 2007 18:41:14 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 29 Aug 2007 18:41:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 29241 invoked by uid 500); 29 Aug 2007 18:41:10 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-uima-user-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 29116 invoked by uid 500); 29 Aug 2007 18:41:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact uima-user-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: uima-user@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list uima-user@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 29107 invoked by uid 99); 29 Aug 2007 18:41:10 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:41:10 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [141.142.2.177] (HELO zanamavir.ncsa.uiuc.edu) (141.142.2.177) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:42:03 +0000 Received: from candy.ncsa.uiuc.edu (candy.ncsa.uiuc.edu [141.142.220.49]) by zanamavir.ncsa.uiuc.edu (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l7TIeim2012457 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:40:44 -0500 Message-Id: <7.0.0.16.2.20070829133047.04a01500@ncsa.uiuc.edu> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.0.0.16 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:40:43 -0500 To: uima-user@incubator.apache.org From: Andrew Shirk Subject: RE: read/write resource sharing In-Reply-To: <31923CD68FF05B42B1D3AC08F2D733B502A2998E@nybf01-mail01.ad. gd-ais.com> References: <7.0.0.16.2.20070829102140.04b5dc60@ncsa.uiuc.edu> <46D59C49.3090408@gmx.de> <46D59E8E.4090207@michael-baessler.de> <7.0.0.16.2.20070829112923.04b1f7e0@ncsa.uiuc.edu> <31923CD68FF05B42B1D3AC08F2D733B502A2998E@nybf01-mail01.ad.gd-ais.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Null-Tag: 1e60f56878f5de51e7582cfcbbd62313 X-NCSA-MailScanner-Information: Please contact help@ncsa.uiuc.edu for more information, zanamavir.ncsa.uiuc.edu X-NCSA-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org At 12:26 PM 8/29/2007, you wrote: >Why is this a kludge? You want the parameters associated with each CAS >right? Would this still be a kludge in a networked/distributed setup >where presumably one analysis engine might have worked through lots of >documents while the next is still working on the first etc. and the >global variable would be out of date? Yes, that indeed would be a problem, but it seems reasonable to assume a UIMA implementation could handle the synchronization of such global variables. Perhaps some scope limitations could also be placed on them to minimize inefficiency.