Apache UIMA uimaFIT 3.4.0

This is a feature and bugfix release.

What's Changed

Improvements

• ⭐️ Issue #195: Detect descriptors via SPI by @reckart in #197, #204
• ⭐️ Issue #196: Provide OSGI metadata in JARs by @reckart in #199, #202, #203
• ⭐️ Issue #205: Managed CASes in tests should consider validators by @reckart in #206
• ⭐️ Issue #209: Ability to override validator for a test by @reckart in #210
• ⭐️ Issue #211: Conveniently skip validation by @reckart in #212
• ⭐️ Issue #215: Improve descriptor scanning performance when there are many classloaders by @reckart in #216
• ⭐️ Issue #220: Add getType signature accepting a type system by @reckart in #221

Bugs fixed

• 🦟 Issue #207: Cannot override CAS content set in a BeforeEach method by @reckart in #208
• 🦟 Issue #213: Avoid broken typesystem when using ManagedCas by @reckart in #214

Refactorings

• ⚙️ Issue #198: Remove version overrides in Maven plugin modules by @reckart in #200
• 🩹 Issue #218: Update dependencies by @reckart in #219, #222, #223

For a full list of issues affecting this release, please see:

• GitHub issues [online]

Supported Platforms

uimaFIT 3.4.0 should be used in combination with

• Java 1.8 or higher
• UIMA Java SDK 3.4.0 or higher
• Spring Framework 5.3.25 or higher

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