Discovery Machine Gears

Discovery Machine Gears are customized, stand-alone, executable process models that can be executed independently of The Discovery Machine Modeler.  A Gear is created by compiling a process model using the DM Modeler.

The main advantages of using a Gear over running the original model are:

• The DM Gear runs much more quickly because it already compiled.
• The DM Gear is easy to distribute to other users because the user does not need the full DM Modeler.
• The DM Gear can be executed from:
  • the command line
  • a Java Applet on a website
  • another software application by using the DM Gear Application Programming Interface (API)

To run, a Gear only requires the Discovery Machine GearRunner. The DM GearRunner is a lightweight platform that allows a user to execute a gear without the need of a full IDE. It runs in conjunction with the standard Java Runtime Environment (JRE).