org.apache.uima.cas
Interface AbstractCas

All Known Subinterfaces:

CAS, JCas

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCas_ImplBase

public interface AbstractCas

The base interface extended by all CAS (Common Analysis System) interfaces in the UIMA SDK. A CAS is an object that provides access to an artifact and metadata about that artifact. Analysis Components, such as Annotators, read from a CAS interface in order to do their analysis and may write new metadata back to the CAS interface.

The UIMA SDK provides the CAS interfaces JCas and CAS, but in future versions, other CAS interfaces may be available.

Method Summary

void	release() Indicates that the caller is done using this CAS.

Method Detail

release

void release()

Indicates that the caller is done using this CAS. Some CAS instances may be pooled, in which case this method returns this CAS to the pool that owns it.