[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Updating a RCP through an Eclipse applicatio

[Joseph George <joseph.george@xxxxxxxxx>]

HI,
Consider the following scenario:

I have a server running as a headless Eclipse application. There can be multiple 
instances of this server on the network. I also have multiple RCP clients that 
connect to these servers. The server is updated through an update site on the 
internet. During a server update, it downloads newer versions of server and 
client plugins.

Is it possible for the clients to download the newer version of client plugins 
from the server itself?

The scenario gets more complicated:
Suppose i have two servers: SERVER-A and SERVER-B. SERVER-A has been updated and 
consists of updated plugins. A client first connects to SERVER-A, notices it 
contains updated versions of plugins and also new plugins and downloads them. 
After that session gets over, the same client connects to SERVER-B. Now we have 
a problemo: can the client revert back to its previous plugin state?

The goal is to have the set of plugins on the server and the client exactly the 
same. If they are different the client either uses older versions of the plugin 
or downloads newer/missing plugins.

Best regards,
Joseph.

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Joseph George Variam
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Sphere Networks
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