[Openjnlp-devel] Background downloading of newer versions

[Mario C. <mar...@po...>]

Are there any plans to support background downloading of newer versions when
there exists a working version in the cache?  For instance, in section 1.2.2
of the spec it says "a JNLP client can download an updated version in the
background, while the already-downloaded version is being used".  (They seem
to imply that you need to use the version-based protocol to be able to do
that, but I fail to see why you would NEED it.)

I think having support for that would provide much faster startup times when
the network is slow.  I could implement it myself, but I think it might
require small changes all over the place so if it's already in the plans or
if someone is already tackling this issue, I suppose I can wait.  Any
suggestions on how to go about this?

Mario