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 :

> * If the user *IS* connected to the Internet, to periodically check for
>update versions.

If you are online, it does a quick check every time the program runs.
It checks the date on the server's JNLP file to see if it has changed
since the last time. The server's copy of the JNLP file (actually the
one pointed to in the JNLP file) is always definitive, no matter which
JNLP file was used to start the launch.

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