Tim had a good end user use case: I just want to use the ctakes constituency parser and output the tree text to console. So I was inspired by Richard example of groovy... Check out: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ctakes/sandbox/groovy/parser.groovy
The groovy script will "Automagically" download the required classes,jars,resources and automatically runs. No longer requires the user to have any knowledge of UIMA, cTAKES, etc. Sample: $ parser.groovy input Reading from directory: input patient took 50mg of aspirin for pain in knee. begin:0 end:48 Pretty cool, 'eh... --Pei
