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Does your class really live in
Lesson4/src/de.tudarmstadt.ukp.teaching.tutorial.lesson4/PosTagger.java?
Shouldn't that be de/tudarmstadt/upk/...?

--Thilo

On 11/22/2010 10:30, A. Schaller wrote:
> Hey together,
> 
> I am having troubles with UIMA running a AE Descriptor or CPE Descriptor. When I 
> try to run one of these with run configuriation "UIMA Run AE", "UIMA Run CPE" or 
> "UIMA CAS Visual Debugger" I get the error:
> 
> Caused by: org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException: 
> Initialization of annotator class "foo" failed.
> 
> Where foo is the corresponding *.java file. The strange thing is: When i am 
> going through the RoomNumberAnnotator example (http://uima.apache.org/doc-uima-
> annotator.html) everything works fine and compiles nicely.
> 
> But when i try to import an UIMA project into eclipse or try to build another 
> UIMA app i am running into the mentioned error. For example i try to import the 
> following UIMA project (which is pretty minimal. It simply implements a POS 
> tagger with stanford's pos tagger): theknetgroup.org/lesson4.zip
> 
> This is what i do:
> 
> 1. Set UIMA_HOME (export UIMA_HOME=/home/bin4ry/Tools/Dev/apache-uima
> 2. Open Eclipse set (once) UIMA_HOME: Windows --> Preferences -> Variables ...
> 3. New Project -> Java Project --> Name Lesson4
> 4. Right Click on this project --> properties --> UIMA CDE Property Page --> set 
> Data Path to "/home/bin4ry/workspace/Lesson4"
> 5. Right Click on this project --> Add UIMA Nature
> 6. Drag&Drop the extracted files from lesson4.zip into the corresponding project 
> folders (desc, src).
> 7. Right Click on this project --> Configure Build Path --> Libraries --> Add 
> Variable --> Select "UIMA_HOME" --> Extend ... --> Select uima-core.jar, uima-
> cpe.jar, uima-document-annotation.jar | Add External JARs and select the 
> downloaded stanford-postagger.jar 
> (http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/tagger.shtml#Download)
> 
> ---
> All the code must go to 
> Lesson4/src/de.tudarmstadt.ukp.teaching.tutorial.lesson4/PosTagger.java but this 
> is not of interest here therefore i leave it out. The corresponding descriptor 
> file resides in Lesson4/desc/annotator/lesson4/PosTagger.xml.
> ---
> 9. Open it with Component Descriptor Editor --> Type System --> remove all the 
> listed types (if you view the source they are referred to by name not by 
> location. This gives an error later on when running it with the debugger. The 
> error states: "org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException: An 
> import could not be resolved. No xml file with name "desc.type.lesson4.Pos" was 
> found in the class path or data path. ..." Maybe this is another hint to the 
> whole problem?) --> add --> Import by location (Lesson4/desc/type/Sentence.xml & 
> Token.xml as well as Lesson4/desc/type/lesson4/Pos.xml)
> 
> 9. Run --> Run Configurations --> UIMA CAS Visual Debugger --> Classpath --> 
> User Entries --> Add project --> Lesson4 | Add External JARs --> select 
> stanford-postagger.jar --> Apply --> Run
> 10. Now I load the Descriptor xml file with Run --> Load AE and I browse to 
> /home/bin4ry/workspace/Lesson4/desc/annotator/lesson4/PosTagger.xml
> 11. ERROR: org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException: 
> Initialization of annotator class 
> "de.tudarmstadt.ukp.teaching.tutorial.lesson4.PosTagger" failed. 
> 
> 
> What the heck i'm doing wrong? I tried this on Ubuntu 10.10 (even Win 7) with 
> java-6-sun and java-6-openjdk etc. I know that UIMA is setup correctly since 
> RoomNumberAnnotator works fine. There must be a little parameter configured 
> wrong. Help please...this drives me crazy.
>