Usage of current Stanford libraries is not possible

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Hi,

I'm working on a new node to use a German NER tagger. Therefore I started by creating a new project with the SDK (eclipse Indigo) and tried to use the current Stanford libraries like stanford-ner-3.5.2.jar. But there is a problem with recognizing all the needed classes in this jar file. This doesn't happen when using a newer eclipse version or netbeans.

So when are you upgrading the eclipse version for KNIME?

Is there a known workaround?

 

Thanks and regards

Klaus-Peter

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Hi Klaus-Peter,

it is planned to upgrade the eclipse version with KNIME 3.0 which will be released this year.

How did you integrate the stanford lib, did you set a dependency in the plugin.xml of your extension?

Cheers, Kilian

 

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Hi Kilian,

I just added the library to the project. Doing this in the current eclipse version works fine, dong this in eclipse 3.7.x will result in not being able to use certain methods of this library because they were compiled using Java 8 which is not possible to use with eclipse 3.7.x. So I stopped right there and switched to old Stanford libraries which do not contain all the nice methods of the current version.

Regards

Klaus-Peter

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Hi Klaus-Peter,

sorry for the inconvenience. KNIME 3.0 will be based on Java 8. It is planned to be released at the end of September.

Cheers, Kilian