[josm-dev] restart JOSM

[Shaun MS McDonald]

On 10 Dec 2009, at 15:41, Matthias Julius wrote:

> Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Dieter Muecke wrote:
>> 
>>> Instead of restarting JOSM by hand after plugin update the code snippet 
>>> below does it programmatically. It works on Mac OSX but before I submit 
>>> a patch I would like know how do the same on Windows and Linux.
>> 
>> Why do you want restarting JOSM after plugin update?
>> 
>> The plugin update on startup is done before loading the plugins, so 
>> already the new plugins are loaded.
>> 
>> And in any other case programmatically restarting is a bad idea as well 
>> (webstart, applet, security issues, ...).
> 
> Plus, unless the current state (loaded data, zoom etc.) survives the
> restart the benefit for the user is negligible.  In my view that's not
> worth jumping through hoops to make it work on all platforms.
> 
> Better would be if there was a way to reload plugins without having to
> restart JOSM.

+1

jEdit (a Java text editor) has a way to load, unload and reload plugins without the need to restart, and all plugins were updated a few years back for that new capability.

Shaun