Hi Sean, I would love to see cTAKES upgrading to latest tech stack starting from JAVA 11. I can spend some time on this with some guidance.
On Thu, 18 May 2023 at 08:32, Finan, Sean <sean.fi...@childrens.harvard.edu.invalid> wrote: > Before anybody asks: > > We as a community do want to update ctakes to be a 21st century > application. > > That means the latest cutting edge versions of java, uima, cleartk, log4j, > etc. > > If you can devote any time towards making this goal a reality, please let > us know! > If you would like to coordinate a hackathon with modernization as a goal, > please take charge of one and gain the credit! At the very least I will > show. :^) > > > Thanks all, > > Sean > > > > ________________________________ > From: Finan, Sean <sean.fi...@childrens.harvard.edu.INVALID> > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 10:47 PM > To: dev@ctakes.apache.org <dev@ctakes.apache.org> > Subject: cTAKES build change, javac [EXTERNAL] [SUSPICIOUS] > > * External Email - Caution * > > > Hi all, > > I am trying to make this understandable for all readers, so the statements > that follow are simplified or abbreviated without tl/dr context. > > There have been recent improvements in the Apache build environments that > require java 11. > Those improvements make the java 8 build environments that ctakes has been > using less than favorable, if not completely untenable. > > Things had to be fiddled about until ctakes could build in a java 11 > environment. > > Though ctakes can now be "built with" java 11, ctakes is "built as a" java > 8 application. > > You still need java 8 to run ctakes. The simple reason for this is that > though the ctakes jars themselves can build on java 11, many dependencies > still require java 8, and we need to stick to that lowest common > denominator. For the time being. > > I have local java 11 builds working and regression tests working (java 8 > vs. 11), but given the infinite possible ctakes pipelines I cannot cover > everything. > > The Apache Jenkins 'maven central'ish builds are also working. > > Please post on dev@ any NEW problems that you have building ctakes or any > discrepancies that you see running ctakes pipeline v5-SNAPSHOT 5/16/2023 > vs. 5/18/2023. > > Thanks all, > > Sean > > > Sean Finan > Research Computing Principal Engineer > Computational Health Informatics Program, Natural Language Processing Lab > Boston Children's Hospital > sean.fi...@tch.harvard.edu > -- Regards, Gandhi "The best way to find urself is to lose urself in the service of others !!!"
