this is coming from a customer conversation in javaone 2004. customer is walgreens.

they are using javawebstart to deploy an application internally all over the US (over 1000 client workstation). the application is usually running day and night and won't be restarted usually. they run into problems when trying to push out updates to the application, since most of the users won't re-start the application and there is no way for them to notice that a update is available, and to re-start it to pick up the application updates.

can we have a periodic upcheck check built into the JNLP application, and if update is avaiable, prompt the user and see if they want to get the updates and re-start the application?

we should contact walgreens to further discuss the problem, if we decide we want to work on this