Re: How often does a Java Web Start application update itself?

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:39:37 +0000 (UTC), bcd@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bent C
Dalager) wrote or quoted :

>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.

If you are online it checks, if not, it waits till you are.

If you don't allow off-line use, it won't start without checking. All
is just what you would expect. It is amazing. The JAWS designers did
the logical thing time after time.

I have not done definitive experiments, but I think it might
redownload the universe if the JNLP file changes, even if some jars
have not. It seems to me, it sometimes reloads the jars when I was
not expecting it to. That is just something to watch for, not a bug
report.

Of course, even if you don't change any source, recompiling changes
the timestamps, which JAWS has to consider significant changes.

With ant I find myself often needlessly recompiling the universe
simply because it is faster FOR ME, than specifying just the packages
that need it.
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