geWorkbench

Overview

.GEAR files are essentially zipped versions of geWorkBench visual plugins. They make it easy to distribute reasonably sized upgrades to specific parts of the application.

Creating a .GEAR file

There is an ant task that will create a .GEAR file automatically. Run ant with something like “ant –Dcomponent=alignment” which will create a .gear file from the alignment component directory. Then put the resulting alignment.gear in a directory called “gears” and the next time the program is run it’ll load the component out of that file.

Viewing loaded versions of components

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