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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:45:51 -0500
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Subject: Re: UimaAsynchronousEngine client poor performance when the pipeline
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Are you following the examples in
http://uima.apache.org/downloads/releaseDocs/2.3.0-incubating/docs-uima-as/html/uima_async_scaleout/uima_async_scaleout.html#ugr.ref.async.api.usage

You may be limited by the size of the CAS pool (see the example code for how to 
set this).

-Marshall

On 2/1/2012 5:11 AM, Spico Florin wrote:
> Hello!
> I have application client that is receiving messages from a Queue via JMS.
> The message is then packed in a JCas and sent to the UIMA AS pipeline via
> UimaAsynchronousEngine.
> If the UIMA AS pipeline processing is slow then it impacts the client in
> the way that the received messages from the
> Queue will not be sent as they arrived. I'm using sendCAS(CAS) method of
> UimaAsynchronousEngine, thus the call to pipeline should be asynchronous
> (as specfied in the spec).
>   In my opinion the described behavior is not as expected (i.e. the client
> should not be affected by the UIMA pipeline performance and
> it should send the received messages for processing right away, without
> waiting some responses).
>    My questions are:
> 1. I suspect, that my client is somehow waiting the response from the
> pipeline. Is there any way to disable the response feature?
> 2. I'm using a thread pool executor that is sending the messages to UIMA
> pipeline. Is this a good approach?
> 3. How to design my client in order to send the messages to the pipeline
> without concerning the pipeline performance?
>
> I look forward for your answers and advices.
>   Thank you.
>     Best regards,
>
>      Florin
>