[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: Is there a JavaWebStart P2 Install

["John E. Conlon" <jconlon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pascal,

Sorry Pascal, I hadn't noticed your response.

see comments below:

Pascal Rapicault wrote:
> > > Is there a P2 Installer enabled for JavaWebStart or any work being 
> > > done  in 
> that direction?
>   The p2 installer is a simple RCP app (no workbench), as such like any 
> other RCP app it can be deployed using p2.
>   What are you really after: installing the installer and then 
> installing the product? or Do you want to deploy your complete app with 
> JWS and also have p2 manage it?
I want to deploy a simple Java Web Start P2 installer for my RCP app.
Scenario:
1. Customer wants to install my RCP, finds the installation page of my 
website.
2. Installation page magic checks customers JRE versions and displays 
warnings with links to download/upgrade JRE OR
a JNLP link.
3. Customer clicks the JNLP link (not knowing what JNLP is because he 
dosen't have to) and the p2 installer is downloaded, executed, and 
displayed.
4. P2 installer prompts for directory to install <MY RCP APP>. Customer 
answers prompt. P2 installer installs the app.
5. App is a fully p2ized and able to deal with p2 updates without JWS.

Benefits- no zips, no extractions, no extraction tools, validates Java, 
no teaching customers how to install or making sure they have unzipping 
tools.

> We currently have no plan to do the last one but it is definitely 
> interesting to investigate

Hope so. On this same subject See
http://blog.hantsuki.org/
March 20 blog

John