[josm-dev] Feature suggestion "automatic update"

[Brent Easton]

Java Webstart is a great idea in theory, but in practice, it is a real PITA. It doesn't work for all people on all systems (for no apparent reason), so you still need a secondary way of downloading/updating. 

After struggling with it for a over a year, another project I am working on is ditching it.

It's great when it works, for the people it works for, but the support overheads for the rest just isn't worth it.

Just my opinion.

Cheers,
brent.

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On 23/10/2007 at 2:24 PM Tino Miegel  wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Java Web Start provides just these features:
>http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/
>
>There is also a ticket on TRAC:
>http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/390
>
>No more downloading josm-latest.jar, starting up to check if it's a
>newer revision than you saved jar...
>

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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au