Hi Mark, Would be great if you’d blog or document somehow how you did this, could be useful for many others.
Gj On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 14:57, Mark Phipps <mark.phi...@sucfin.com> wrote: > Thanks Emilian, I was able to use that class as the outline of an > auto-updater-and-restarter mechanism in my client. > > I am not really sure what is going on inside all of the InstallSupport, > OperationContainer and UpdateElement stuff, but I now have effectively the > same behaviour as the Java Web Start application which my Platform client > is ultimately replacing. > > Thanks > > Mark > On 12/12/18 19:40, Emilian Bold wrote: > > That UpdateHandler seems to be the right thing. > > Making a rolling release Platform app sounds the kind of use case we > should support out of the box (maybe even for the IDE?) > > I haven't looked much into this (other that using that class you found) > but there are some odd corner cases too study: I remember I had an app > kinda looping after I killed it right before it wanted to restart for the > auto-update. Worked rather flawlessly other than that though, so don't > worry too much about it. > > --emi > > http://coolbeans.xyz/ - CoolBeans: An IDE for Java, JavaEE, PHP and more! > > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 7:26 PM Mark Phipps <mark.phi...@sucfin.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am keen to follow the way of "pushing" updates to my NB platform app, >> that Geertjan and Jiri Rechtacek described a few years ago, in their blog >> posts and which is referred to in several other places. >> >> >> https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/how-to-push-netbeans-plugins-silently-to-end-users >> >> https://www.pellissier.co.za/hermien/?p=496 >> >> However Jiri's blogpost with details of his plugin and technique seems to >> have disappeared. Can anyone point me to where I can find that plugin or >> details/example code to make this happen? >> >> Searching for Jiri himself, I came across the WakaTime netbeans plugin - >> is this the same/similar thing? >> https://github.com/wakatime/netbeans-wakatime/blob/master/src/org/wakatime/netbeans/plugin/UpdateHandler.java >> >> Any help is much appreciated >> >> Thanks >> >> Mark >> >> *Mark Phipps |* Front Office Development Manager >> *Sucden Financial Limited |* Plantation Place South *|* 60 Great Tower >> Street >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=60%0D%0A++++++++++++++++++Great+Tower+Street+%0D%0A+++++++++++++++++++%7C%C2%A0+London%0D%0A++++++++++++++++++EC3R+5AZ&entry=gmail&source=g>* >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=60%0D%0A++++++++++++++++++Great+Tower+Street+%0D%0A+++++++++++++++++++%7C%C2%A0+London%0D%0A++++++++++++++++++EC3R+5AZ&entry=gmail&source=g>**| >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=60%0D%0A++++++++++++++++++Great+Tower+Street+%0D%0A+++++++++++++++++++%7C%C2%A0+London%0D%0A++++++++++++++++++EC3R+5AZ&entry=gmail&source=g>*London >> EC3R 5AZ >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=60%0D%0A++++++++++++++++++Great+Tower+Street+%0D%0A+++++++++++++++++++%7C%C2%A0+London%0D%0A++++++++++++++++++EC3R+5AZ&entry=gmail&source=g> >> >> *Telephone (DDI): *+44 (0)20 3207 5140* | Switchboard:* +44 (0)20 3207 >> 5000 >> *Email: *mark.phi...@sucfin.com | *Website:* www.sucdenfinancial.com >> >> >> [image: Description: signature20170705.jpg] >> <http://www.sucdenfinancial.com/en> >> >> Twitter <https://twitter.com/SucdenFinancial> | LinkedIn >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/sucden-financial-limited> >> >> www.sucdenfinancial.com >> >> Sucden Financial Limited, Plantation Place South, 60 Great Tower Street, >> London EC3R 5AZ >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=60+Great%0D%0A++++++++++++++++++++Tower+Street,+London+EC3R+5AZ&entry=gmail&source=g> >> Telephone +44 203 207 5000 >> >> Registered in England no. 1095841 >> VAT registration no. 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