in the Clerezza console run (in this same order): :f start mvn:org.apache.clerezza/uima.utils :f start mvn:org.apache.clerezza/uima.ontologies :f start mvn:org.apache.clerezza/uima.ontologies.ao :f start mvn:org.apache.clerezza/uima.casconsumer :f start mvn:org.apache.clerezza/uima.samples then try sending the following HTTP POST with cURL: curl -d "uri=http://people.apache.org/~tommaso/projects.html" http://localhost:8080/uima/opennlp/person