public void oncreate() {

    if (Gate.getPluginsHome() != null) {
      System.out.println(Gate.getPluginsHome());
    } else {
      Gate.setPluginsHome(new File("C:/Program Files/GATE_Developer_8.0/plugins"));
    }
  }
  public void setConf(Configuration conf) {
    config = conf;

    if (applicationDescriptorPath == null)
      throw new RuntimeException("GATE application path is null");

    // create one instance of the GATE application
    // need to avoid concurrent access to the application
    try {

      if (inited == false) {
        File gateHome = new File(applicationDescriptorPath.getFile()).getParentFile();
        LOG.info("Setting GATE_HOME as " + gateHome);
        File pluginsHome = new File(gateHome, "plugins");
        // the config files are in the job archive - not in the GATE
        // application
        // zip
        // File siteConfigFile = new File(conf
        // .getResource("site-gate.xml").getFile());
        // File userConfig = new File(conf.getResource("user-gate.xml")
        // .getFile());
        Gate.runInSandbox(true);
        Gate.setGateHome(gateHome);
        Gate.setPluginsHome(pluginsHome);
        // Gate.setSiteConfigFile(siteConfigFile);
        // Gate.setUserConfigFile(userConfig);
        // the builtInCreoleDir files
        // are stored in the same place as the config ones
        // Gate.setBuiltinCreoleDir(conf.getResource("creole.xml"));
        Gate.init();
        inited = true;
      }

      corpus = Factory.newCorpus("DummyCorpus");

      this.GATEapplication =
          (CorpusController) PersistenceManager.loadObjectFromUrl(applicationDescriptorPath);

      // load the annotation and feature filters from the configuration
      this.filters = GATEAnnotationFilters.getFilters(config);

    } catch (Exception e) {
      LOG.error("Encountered error while initialising GATE", e);
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }