MATLAB Runtime Server

Chapter 3
Developing a MATLAB Runtime Engine Application

Process: MATLAB Runtime Engine Application

If you have an application that uses MATLAB and that you developed while considered the design issues mentioned in Design Issues for a Runtime Application, then the process of converting it into a MATLAB runtime engine application is largely the same as the corresponding process for a MATLAB runtime GUI application. (See Overview of MATLAB Runtime Applications for definitions of the two types of runtime applications.)

As with a MATLAB runtime GUI application, there are four main steps in converting an application that uses MATLAB into a MATLAB runtime engine application:

• Organizing files and managing startup tasks
• Compiling the application M-files into runtime P-files that the MATLAB Runtime Server recognizes
• Testing and debugging the application
• By having commercial MATLAB emulate the Runtime Server
• With the Runtime Server variant (See also Final Testing)

Overview of This Chapter

This chapter discusses the relationship between the Runtime Server and the MATLAB Engine API, describes the two parts of a MATLAB runtime engine application, and then discusses the steps listed above. It also highlights the important differences between developing a MATLAB runtime GUI application and developing a MATLAB runtime engine application. The examples in:

• ActiveX Automation Example and
• Engine API Example

work through the first three steps for sample MATLAB runtime engine applications. For an additional example of a runtime engine application that uses ActiveX Automation, see the description in the file toolbox\runtime\examples\activex\Readme. Finally, the section Summary List: MATLAB Runtime Engine Application summarizes the process of converting an application into a MATLAB runtime engine application, for quick reference.

Summary List: MATLAB Runtime GUI Application

Computation and the MATLAB Engine API