What system do you recommend for implementing "automatic updates" for some java (desktop) application? I'd also want to have module/plugin installation and update. Think Eclipse and Firefox. I'm aware of Eclipse RCP's OSGi stuff, and also NetBeans RCP has something here. Do one have to buy wholly into their respective RCP stuff to use t...
After seeing some of the problems that Microsoft has had upgrading people from Internet Explorer 6 and also seeing how Firefox has automatic updates, it's made me consider the benefits and drawbacks of a push-style upgrade system for our web app. In your opinion, should a web app have automatic updates? Why or why not? If yes, what are s...
There are a few questions (C#, Java) that cover how one might implement automatic updates. It appears initially easy to provide automatic updates, and there are seemingly no good reasons not to provide automatic updates for most software. However, none appear to cover the security aspects of automatic updates. How safe are automatic ...
Hi, [EDIT] The solution seems to be assigning PersistUpdateCheckInfo to false: UpdateCheckInfo updateInfo = null; ... updateInfo = deployment.CheckForDetailedUpdate(false); [/EDIT] I've got a (more or less) perfect manual system for updates using the ClickOnce API. I say perfect because the user is presented with a form explai...
We need to create a windows service that has the ability to self update. Three options spring to mind, a second service that manages the retrieval, uninstallation and installation of the first service. Use of some third party framework (suggestions welcome. I believe .NET supports automatic updating for windows forms apps, but not wi...
We've got a desktop product, made up of a Win32 service, a notification icon application and associated DLL files. I've been tasked to look at making it auto-update. We could write our own updater, but before we do that, I'd like to see what else is out there. Are there any commercial systems (similar to Windows Update, I guess) that we...
A few days ago my .NET 3.5 applications began to fail while start issuing the error "Unable to find a version of the runtime to run this application". As I did not do anything with them, this looked weird to me. After some investigation, I discovered, that the reason is Windows automatic update which installed service pack for .NET 3.5...
I am on a project using php and codeigniter framework. I want to make changes in the database every 3 months. The problem is I don't know how to do it with PHP. I can activate a function when a user access a page, but I want it to be self-executed at certain date. ...
Here's an interesting question - when should you force automatic updates? I was thinking about application updates recently, how software like Google Chrome forces automatic updates, how Microsoft uses automatic updates but doesn't force them if you don't really want them, and how some leave it up to the user entirely. One one hand, for...
I'm looking for a way to setup pull deployment as apposed to the traditional push deployment model under Windows. The optimal situation would be: Deploy the file(s) to the master server The child server would check to see if the master had an update at a given time or time interval. If the master server contains an update, then it wou...
In my company, we use Symantec Endpoint Prodection. But I have an update problem: How can i solve it? Can Windows 7 block Symantec's update? ...