Chickens, Eggs and Automatic updates.

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From: Nathan Kirkham
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 00:00

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We have designed a swish updating system that contacts our server and
tests the clients machines jars to see if they are the latest versions.
If they are not it downloads the latest versions.
The problem is that the application classpath includes these jars
(though we don't use them for the update bit).  JRE keeps a lock on the
jars so we can't copy the new files on top.

Has anyone got a clue how to do this without having another application
that just does the update.  Running it instead of the normal application
would be confusing for our users.

Thanks

Nathan

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