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Now the META-INF/org.uimafit was renamed to META-INF/org.apache.uima.fit.

JCasUtil

The deprecated method JCasUtil.iterate() does not exist anymore has been removed. JCasUtil.select() should be used instead.

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All createAggregateXXX and createPrimitiveXXX methods have been renamed to createEngineXXX. The old names are deprecated.

All createAnalysisEngineXXX methods have been renamed to createEngineXXX. The old names are deprecated.

CollectionReaderFactory

All createDescriptionXXX methods have been renamed to createReaderDescriptionXXX. The old names are deprecated.

All createCollectionReaderXXX methods have been renamed to createReaderXXX. The old names are deprecated.

Legacy support module

The compatibility layer should allow you to migrate to uimaFIT 2.0.0 without breaking anything. You should then be able to gradually change the codebase to be compatible with uimaFIT 2.0.0. As far as my tests go, uimaFIT 1.x and 2.0.0 can coexist peacefully on the classpath (and indeed both need to be on the classpath in order to use the legacy support module).

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