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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:28:56 +0100
From: Egbert van der Wal <ewal@pointpro.nl>
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Subject: Loading annotators from resources in JAR-file
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Hello,

I've been looking all over the internet for this, but I can't find a 
proper working solution. I'm currently developing a system that needs to 
run independently on any machine with a JVM. Therefore, I would like to 
package everything inside a single JAR-file. Preferably including UIMA, 
but I'm not sure if the license allows this?

Anyway, I have created several annotators and one aggregate annotator 
that links to these annotators using a relative path. The aggregate 
annotator is in desc/analysis engines/ and the annotators are in 
desc/annotators. The aggregate annotator links to the annotatiors like 
so: ../annotators/MyAnnotator.xml

Because the files are being packaged in a JAR-file, I am using 
getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("analysis 
engines/MyAE.xml") to load the engine and pass that to the 
XMLInputReader. This all seems to work, however, the function 
parseResourceSpecifier tries to load the linked annotators and complains 
it cannot find them. So fix the path issues, I replaced 
'getResourceAsStream' with 'getResource' which results in a URL. The 
XMLInputReader also accepts a URL, so that also works, but it gives the 
same problem.

I think the problem more or less lies in the relative path, which messes 
up the resource in the URL.However, I tried changing the paths to 
annotators/MyAnnotator.xml or /annotators/MyAnnotator.xml, but this also 
doesn't work, and in addition, makes the Component Descriptor Editor in 
Eclipse fail to read the file as it also cannot find the file.

So, the big question is: what is the proper procedure to read and 
reference annotators packaged within a JAR-file?

For reference, this is the error I'm getting when running the JAR-file 
(it all works fine from the development environment):

org.apache.uima.resource.ResourceInitializationException: Import 
failed.  Could not read from URL rsrc:../annotators/MyAnnotator.xml. 
(Descriptor: rsrc:analysis%20engines/MyAE.xml)
     at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initialize(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:159)
     at 
org.apache.uima.impl.AnalysisEngineFactory_impl.produceResource(AnalysisEngineFactory_impl.java:94)
     at 
org.apache.uima.impl.CompositeResourceFactory_impl.produceResource(CompositeResourceFactory_impl.java:62)
     at 
org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceResource(UIMAFramework.java:269)
     at 
org.apache.uima.UIMAFramework.produceAnalysisEngine(UIMAFramework.java:354)
     at 
nl.novay.keywordSpotter.KeywordSpotter.initializeEngine(KeywordSpotter.java:222)
     at nl.novay.keywordSpotter.KeywordSpotter.main(KeywordSpotter.java:137)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
     at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader.main(JarRsrcLoader.java:58)
Caused by: org.apache.uima.util.InvalidXMLException: Import failed. 
Could not read from URL rsrc:../annotators/MyAnnotator.xml. (Descriptor: 
rsrc:analysis%20engines/MyAE.xml)
     at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AnalysisEngineDescription_impl.resolveDelegateAnalysisEngineImports(AnalysisEngineDescription_impl.java:812)
     at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AnalysisEngineDescription_impl.resolveDelegateAnalysisEngineImports(AnalysisEngineDescription_impl.java:765)
     at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AnalysisEngineDescription_impl.getDelegateAnalysisEngineSpecifiers(AnalysisEngineDescription_impl.java:193)
     at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.initialize(AggregateAnalysisEngine_impl.java:147)
     ... 11 more
Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException: Could not open InputStream 
for URL 'rsrc:../annotators/MyAnnotator.xml'
     at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.RsrcURLConnection.getInputStream(RsrcURLConnection.java:46)
     at org.apache.uima.util.XMLInputSource.<init>(XMLInputSource.java:120)
     at 
org.apache.uima.analysis_engine.impl.AnalysisEngineDescription_impl.resolveDelegateAnalysisEngineImports(AnalysisEngineDescription_impl.java:810)
     ... 14 more


Thanks for any suggestions!

Bye,

Egbert