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...
I'm wondering if there are any projects out there to create a standard for subscribing to notification of software updates in a way that can be easily aggregated (e.g. RSS feeds?), so that it's easy to check dozens or hundreds of software projects I'm interested in for new releases. [edit: moved the other half of the question that was f...
I am considering implementing some sort of Software Update Notification for one of the web applications I am developing. There are several questions I came across: Should the update check be executed on the client or on the server? Client-side means, the software retrieves the most current version information, performs its checks, ...
Is there any API or tool that can automate software updating? It should take care of checking for updates from a URL for a provided list of files and downloading and replacing the ones that need updating. It would also be nice if it contained an authentication module so that only authorized parties could access the updates. It should be ...
Does anyone have experience with a library or tool suite that helps an ISV deliver software updates of shipped products? We ship software that runs on OS X, Linux, and Windows. We have partial solutions that are platform-specific for each platform, but we would like to have a single, unified system for pushing out software updates to our...
Here is a programming issue you may have faced in your past. If a platform you are developing against has multiple firmware updates, and your software has a serious yet hard-to-reproduce issue in one of the older firmware, do you consider that as your bug? Should you work more on that or not? For instance, Nokia does not issue an offi...
We are searching a framework which could update out Java/Swing desktop application (not the Java version) similar to Firefox or Thunderbird (from the user point of view). Java Web Start is no option for us for different reasons which I don't want to explain. I know, that OSGi implementations can do that, but for our purpose this would be...