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Philipp Daumke wrote:
[...]
> 
> Another idea that I had was whether it's possible to access the
> CollectionReaderXML from the CasConsumer automatically. Is there
> something like getCPEComponents().getCollectionReader.getMetaData()
> which you can call from any CPEComponent? I couldn't find it so far.

No, you can't do that.  Components may not access
their containers or other components.  That would
violate the UIMA idea of encapsulation.

--Thilo