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No; in fact there are many possible representations of the CAS. If all of the analysis engines are running in the same process, an efficient, in-memory data object is used. If a CAS must be sent to an analysis engine on a remote machine, it can be done via an XML or a binary serialization of the CAS. UIMA specifies an XML representation of the CAS.
