Many of the additional components found in the Addons and Sandbox have individual documentation files, which
you can access from the Addons and Sandbox page
Note: Many of these have not (yet) been updated for UIMA V3.
The UIMA "Getting Started" guides are intended to offer a quick overview of UIMA and how it works.
They are designed to address different audiences that want to work with UIMA.
The section below lists all currently available "getting started" guides with their links.
For more advanced documentation about these topics, please refer to the Apache UIMA release documentation.
Getting Started: Why UIMA
For first time UIMA users who want to know what UIMA is and how it can be used for.
Getting Started: Install UIMA And Run Examples
For first time UIMA users who want to know how UIMA is installed and how they can run
the UIMA analysis examples that are provided with the release package.
Getting Started: Working With PEARs
For UIMA users who want to know what a UIMA PEAR package is, how to generate them
and how to use them within UIMA applications.
Getting Started: UIMA C++ Framework
For UIMA users who want to create UIMA compliant Analysis Engines from programs written in C++,
Perl, Python or Tcl.