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

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:14:42 GMT, "Oliver Wong" <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote or quoted :

> 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.

That is the standard behaviour. JAWS is a remarkably sane system.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javawebstart.html
for an intro and pointers to all kinds of documentation.

My biggest beef with is the difficulty in nailing down a chunk of
sensibly-named, persistent, user-accessible disk space, as normal
apps do when they install, e.g. in Program Files and c:\documents and
settings\administrator.roedy\application data\xxx

One of the nicest features is the way they let you put your JNI dlls
and so's in a jar rather than having to manually install them
somewhere on the path.
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http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts.
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