This sounds like a great feature. My gut instinct is that maybe it should be disabled by default and something we encourage people to enable.
What do others think? -David On Feb 1, 2012, at 6:36 AM, Jean-Louis MONTEIRO wrote: > +1 > Of course if that is one of my idea. > Just to argue a bit. > > With Apache TomEE (it was also the case before), a lot of companies or > people are using OpenEJB/TomEE in production. > > It would be great to have kinda Apache TomEE server, we can use to publish > important releases or security/bugfixes. > > During startup and if the network is available, just ping our central > server and check whereas there is an important update available. > > If yes, just send a message in logs or an email to the administrator to > inform him about new important updates. > We could imagine enhencing our current webapp installer to ask for > administrator information such as email, smtp server or so. > > That was my initial thought. > > Jean-Louis > > > 2012/2/1 Romain Manni-Bucau <[email protected]> > >> An idea from JL: >> >> should we do sthg like the update checker of ehcache? >> >> >> http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/net.sf.ehcache/ehcache-core/2.4.0/net/sf/ehcache/util/UpdateChecker.java >> >> - Romain >>
