Apache UIMA™ Apache UIMA™ Development Community Version 3.2.0 UIMA 3 User's Guide Overview of UIMA Version 3 . 2 What’s new in UIMA 3 . 2 Java 8 is required . 5 Backwards Compatibility . 6 JCas and non-JCas APIs . 6 Additional reserved names in the JCas generated classes . 6 Serialization forms . 6 Delta CAS Version 2 Binary deserialization not supported . 6 APIs for creating and modifying Feature Structures. 7 Preserving V2 ids, with low level CAS Api accessibility . 7 PEAR support . 9 toString(). 9 Logging configuration is somewhat different. 9 Type System sharing . 10 Some checks moved to native Java . 10 Some class hierarchies have been modified . 11 Enabling multiple versions of type systems to work with a single common JCas class . 11 New and Extended APIs . 12 UIMA FSIndex and FSIterators improvements. 12 New Select API . 13 New custom Java objects in the CAS framework . 13 Built-in lists and arrays. 13 Built-in lists and arrays have common super classes / interfaces . 14 Many UIMA objects implement Stream or Collection . 14 Reorganized APIs . 14 Use of JCas Class to specify a UIMA type . 15 JCasGen changes. 15 JCas additional static fields . 15 Generics added . 15 Other changes . 15 SelectFS CAS data access. 17 Select’s use of the builder pattern . 17 Sources of Feature Structures . 18 Use of Type in selection of sources . 19 Sources and generic typing. 19 Selection and Ordering. 21 Boolean properties . 22 Configuration for any source . 22 Configuration for any index . 22 Configuration for sort-ordered indexes . 23 Following or Preceding . 24 Bounded sub-selection within an Annotation Index . 24 Variations in Bounded sub-selection within an Annotation Index . 25 Defaults for bounded selects. 26 Terminal Form actions . 27 Iterators . 28 Arrays and Lists . 28 Single Items. 28 Streams . 29 Annotation relation predicates . 30 CAS-transported custom Java objects . 32 Tutorial example . 32 Additional semi-built-in UIMA Types for some common Java Objects . 35 FSArrayList . 35 IntegerArrayList . 35 FSHashSet and FSLinkedHashSet . ..