I believe we bypass the mirror system because the mirror system doesn't support the jnlp protocol (handling the mime type)..
Scott On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> wrote: > An icon is usually added to the user's start menu and/or desktop, which > launches javaws and uses the jnlp protocol, so they don't need to go back > to the link to get the benefit of autoupdates. > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > The benefit of webstart is updates are automatically downloaded and >> > installed. The link actually tries to check jars each time you start >> the >> > app and will update automatically if there are new ones. >> >> yes understood. >> >> Does the user (i am a webstart noob) always need to click on our >> webpage to start the app? >> And, do we actually bypass the mirror system here or am I wrong with >> my assumption? Not sure if that is really relevant because I don't >> know about the user base >> >> Cheers >> Christian >> >> >> >> > Scott >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Christian Grobmeier < >> [email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> > I think the gotcha there had something to do with making sure the >> jnlp >> >> > file mapping was correctly supported. It has been about eight years, >> but >> >> > that is my recollection. >> >> > >> >> > That and the stupid maven template support would not allow us to use >> an >> >> > image as the link (a 'launch' webstart graphical button as the link) >> >> >> >> >> >> Is there something speaking against downloading an exe/dmg/zip via the >> >> usual download system? >> >> Or is webstart the killer feature for chainsaw? :-) >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > Scott >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:46 AM, Christian Grobmeier < >> [email protected]> >> >> > wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Ralph Goers >> >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> I believe all the hard work on the logging site is completed >> however >> >> >>> some of the sub projects are yet to be published. I would like to >> have >> >> >>> infra convert loggingtest.apache.org to logging.apache.org but I >> don't want >> >> >>> to get 404s on those sub projects. >> >> >>> >> >> >>> I looked at chainsaw and the download page will certainly break if >> I >> >> >>> were to just copy the content. I'm not sure about the others. >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Any ideas? >> >> >> >> >> >> Just added log4cxx to loggingtest.a.o. Its using the download script >> >> >> which generates a list of mirrors so no problem here. In addition I >> >> >> completed the branding requirements for log4cxx so we can leave that >> >> >> untouched for a while now. >> >> >> >> >> >> I am not sure on the chainsaw one. It seems to bypass the mirroring >> >> >> system which is kind a bad. Instead we should change the site to use >> >> >> the download script imho. Maybe Scott can comment here. >> >> >> >> >> >> That being said, the chainsaw site needs an appropriate footer. >> >> >> Basically the maven.vm template could be used in chainsaw too. So we >> >> >> have 2 tasks here, update to branding and use the mirror system. >> >> >> >> >> >> cheers >> >> >> Christian >> >> >> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Ralph >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> http://www.grobmeier.de >> >> >> https://www.timeandbill.de >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> http://www.grobmeier.de >> >> https://www.timeandbill.de >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.grobmeier.de >> https://www.timeandbill.de >> > >
