Re: How often does a Java Web Start application update itself?
Bent C Dalager wrote:
In article <CDc%e.196478$wr.53569@clgrps12>,
Oliver Wong <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Any advice on how I can get the desired behaviour described above? I
guess I'm looking for some sort of "always try to launch online, but settle
for launching offline if there's no Internet connection" setting.
This is generally what happens. From memory, JWS will look up the URL
to see if there's an update, but if the lookup takes too long, it will
just launch the cached app in stead.
I regularly run JWS apps from the generated desktop and start menu
shortcuts, and it always updates the app if necessary when launching.
If the user has checked the "off-line" option in the control panel, I
am not sure what JWS does, but my guess would be that it doesn't check
for updates.
Sure it will, it acts just like the other way, except
that JWS will revert to the locally cached classes
- if there is no connection or
- the cached classes are up to date or
- if the check 'takes too long'*.
* I was almost going to use similar words when describing
the 'offline-allowed' option with which I am more familiar,
but something made me pause..
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