UIMA Documentation Overview

Authors: The Apache UIMA Development Community

Version 3.0.0-beta

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March, 2017

UIMA Version 3.0.0-beta Documentation

The UIMA documentation is available in both PDF and HTML formats. It is divided into five books:

1. Overview & Setup: This includes overview material, a general guide to all the rest of the documentation, and some setup instructions if you are using the Eclipse IDE.
2. UIMA Tutorial and Developers' Guides: This is a set of tutorial chapters and some general overview guides to the major features and capabilities of UIMA.
3. UIMA Tools Guide and Reference: UIMA comes with a set of tools, which are described in this book.
4. UIMA References: Reference materials, covering the XML descriptors, the major APIs, the data interchange formats, and the component packaging.
5. Version 3 User's Guide: UIMA Version 3 is a major rework of the internals, and adds many new capabilities. It is mostly backwards compatible with Version 2, except for the need to regenerate or migrate any user-defined JCas classes.

Release Notes

Click RELEASE_NOTES.html for the 3.0.0-beta Apache UIMA JAVA SDK release notes.

API changes for V3

Click api change report for a report of the APIs in UIMA that were changed in this release, versus the 2.9.0 version.

Issues Fixed

Click issues fixed for the list of Jira issues fixed since the previous release.