[josm-dev] Feature suggestion "automatic update"

[Karl Newman]

On 10/23/07, Brent Easton <b.easton at exemail.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
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> Just my opinion.
>
> Cheers,
> brent.
>

You might take a look at Azureus (a Java-based bittorrent client).
They have auto-update working quite well. I believe the code is in
SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus/). I haven't
looked at the code; I just know the auto-update seems to work well.