Hi Laszlo, My J2SE application is installed by a jpackage-created installer on mac/linux/windows and can be either a client or a server. The application, upon startup, checks if there’s a new version of the app jar available on a server instance and, if so, downloads it so the next time the application starts up, the new jar is used. If one assumes the jar has no external dependencies that might break as a result of moving to a newer version, I don’t think this method leads to added brittleness in the application. But maybe I’m missing something? I’d love to hear your perspective.
In answer to your question, the high level problem I’m trying to solve with this is the avoidance of our user having to re-install our application - or even having to update it manually. I looked into using jdeploy, but we (i.e. our company) don’t want our code accessible in a public repository like npmjs or GitHub. So I’m kind of forced to ‘roll my own’. Using the build date of the jar is just my first, crude step in doing this because it is easiest to implement. If you have any suggestions on how I can get NB to use the jar when running the application rather than the classes/ directory, I’d love to hear it. It would make my debugging easier. Thanks, Tom > On Sep 19, 2023, at 12:05 PM, Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > You probably do not want to do such a thing. Is there a more high level of > use case why you would get the date of a jar? > > Usually depending on file dates would make you application very brittle, > which would work on development, but when put into production, could lead > hours of debugging, whit somebody screaming at the end. > > On 9/19/23 07:38, Thomas Wolf wrote: >> Hi, >> My application has a bit of code that tries to do something based on the >> build date of the jar file. To get the jar file, it does something like >> this: >> >> File jarFile = new >> File(Startup.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().toURI()); >> >> This works fine when the application is run outside of NB, but when >> debugging inside NB, the File that gets pointed to is the >> $HOME/NetBeansProjects/myproject//build/classes/ directory. Is there a way >> to config the NB project to use the jar file that it generates - i.e. >> $HOME/NetBeansProjects/myproject/dist/app.jar ? >> >> Any info is much appreciated, >> Tom >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org >> >> For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
