Class Gate

src/main/java/gate/Gate.java:70–1451

The class is responsible for initialising the GATE libraries, and providing access to singleton utility objects, such as the GATE class loader, CREOLE register and so on.

 * register and so on.
 */
public class Gate implements GateConstants {

  /** A logger to use instead of sending messages to Out or Err **/
  protected static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Gate.class);

  /**
   * The default StringBuffer size, it seems that we need longer string than the
   * StringBuffer class default because of the high number of buffer expansions
   */
  public static final int STRINGBUFFER_SIZE = 1024;

  /**
   * The default size to be used for Hashtable, HashMap and HashSet. The defualt
   * is 11 and it leads to big memory usage. Having a default load factor of
   * 0.75, table of size 4 can take 3 elements before being re-hashed - a values
   * that seems to be optimal for most of the cases.
   */
  public static final int HASH_STH_SIZE = 4;

  

  /** The GATE URI used to interpret custom GATE tags */
  public static final String URI = "http://www.gate.ac.uk";

  /** Minimum version of JDK we support */
  protected static final String MIN_JDK_VERSION = "1.8";

  /**
   * Feature name that should be used to set if the benchmarking logging should
   * be enabled or disabled.
   */
  protected static final String ENABLE_BENCHMARKING_FEATURE_NAME =
    "gate.enable.benchmark";


  /**
   * The version of GATE that is currently running, as a string.
   */
  public static final String VERSION_STRING;

  /**
   * The build number of the running GATE (i.e. the Git revision
   * from which it was compiled).
   */
  public static final String BUILD;

  /**
   * The version of GATE that is currently running.
   */
  public static final Version VERSION;

  // find out the version and build numbers
  static {

    // we can't have the possibility of assigning to a final variable twice so
    // we put the details into a temp variable and then once we are happy assign
    // it to the static final variable
    String temp;