Setting up cTakes as a VM

This will be ultra brief, as if you don't know how to do it, you can google each of these steps quite easily.

Using VirtualBox 5.1.6 r110634 (Qt5.5.1), create a new Ubuntu machine. I used Ubuntu 16.04. Name it something like cTakes RESTful Server. Add host-only adapter in addition to NAT adapter.

Install cTakes per the user manual.

Install Java 7 - Some of the software below is only compatible with Java 7.

sudo apt install maven

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo mysql_secure_installation

Install. Follow ytex setup instructions. Some of these files are getting hard to find. I have them if you can't find them - https://github.com/dirkweissenborn/ctakes-server

That's it! Now you can query cTakes as a RESTful server.