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Re: automatically updating application

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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.)

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid
"The speed at which the system fails is usually not important."

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automatically updating application razor <lukasz.tolwinski@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 11:49 -0700
  Re: automatically updating application Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-09-01 15:31 -0400
  Re: automatically updating application Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-09-01 17:15 -0400
    Re: automatically updating application "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-01 18:14 -0400
    Re: automatically updating application Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-09-01 18:25 -0400
  Re: automatically updating application Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-09-02 02:12 -0700

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