Hello, The cTAKES User Install is mostly sufficient for my lab, but I’ve found that I need to modify a few of the modules. I downloaded the cTAKES source and can successfully run workflows after updating the source code, but I’m having trouble building the modified modules and essentially creating an updated User Install of cTAKES from the source code. Can you help me with a few questions?
* I’m running IntelliJ IDEA, and I can compile the cTAKES source code with build profiles like runPiperGui without problems to run cTAKES programmatically or to start a GUI. I can also run essentially the same workflow in the User Install version by running the bash helper script ‘runPiperFile.sh’. If I wanted to create a modified workflow without the entire source code, could I create a jar file of the module I wanted to modify, and then replace that jar file in the User Install version, or would I need to compile the entire source code for cTAKES? * When I try to create a jar file within IntelliJ IDEA, it asks for the main class. Would this be a class I create for the workflow I’m using, or something else? For example, could I use org.apache.ctakes.examples.pipeline.HelloWorldPiperRunner as a template to build a customized main class that would run programmatically, or should I build a jar file for the modified module without a main class and then replace that in the lib/ folder of the User Install version of cTAKES? * I can create a jar file of a module within IntelliJ IDEA and then replace the modified jar file in the User Install version (for example, modifying ctakes-dictionary-lookup-fast-4.0.0.1.jar and replacing it in the lib/ folder), but when I try to run cTAKES, I receive the error: The feature org.apache.ctakes.typesystem.type.textspan.List:items is declared twice, with incompatible multipleReferencesAllowed specifications I haven’t made any modifications to how the type system is called, only in how a custom dictionary is accessed. Do you have any idea what could be causing this error? Thanks! John Caskey
