Lowering the barrier to entry = worth the effort Notice the NCBO users mailing list has solid routine comments and discussion about the VM "appliance" they distribute.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Pei Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > We spent some time in the past to make it easier for users to launch the > CVD/CPE. > But based on the questions/discussions, I think we are passed this stage > and a very common use case would be for developers to use cTAKES as a lib, > extend a class or two and then, embed it into their existing app. > > I am proposing a ctakes-web-demo for the sandbox, > A simple webapp- war/maven pom.xml that uses the ctakes as a dependency. > Have a simple servlet that wires up a pipeline (uimaFIT style), and then > dump the CAS as html table. We could even host it on: > https://demo-ctakes.apache.org/ > > It will probably only be a few lines of code, but it may be a good starting > point for developers who are more interested in using it as a lib and not > necessarily modifying ctakes code. > > > What do folks think? > > --Pei >
