Re: [Openjnlp-devel] JARDiff questions

[Kevin H. <ke...@na...>]

On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 10:46 , Scott Kovatch wrote:

> Take a look at the developer info on JNLP and Web Start from Sun.  You 
> can download a developer's pack that has a servlet that can process 
> jardiff requests.
>
> http://java.sun.com/products/javawebstart/developers.html
>
> I'm not sure if OpenJNLP supports them, however.

I believe you are responsible for creating the jardiff, and you need the 
servlet in order to deliver the jardiff to the JNLP client. I'm not sure 
if the effort is worthwhile, though. Since the JNLP client caches the 
jar on the remote machine, downloading is minimal (or at least 
infrequent) from an end-user perspective.

That being said, OpenJNLP does not support jardiff yet but it will 
eventually. Currently jardiff is a low-priority feature in OpenJNLP, but 
only because no-one has been asking for it.