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[platform-update-dev] RE: [eclipse-dev] Web-triggered updates
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I don't see the usefulness of this given you have to be running the browser inside the Preview window of Eclipse and the user also has to turn on an option to enable it. It would be better if Eclipse installed a system-wide URL handler or special file type or something that allowed triggered updates from any browser.
Instead of clicking on a zip file, downloading, unpacking, and restarting Eclipse manually, you would click on this install link and it would ask if you wanted to install and tell you whether it was signed or not, etc., and if you say yes it would figure out where to unpack the package and request Eclipse that it restart itself. Care would have to be taken not to open a security hole, perhaps by disallowing custom installers and native code.
On Windows this could be done with some kind of DDE message or by associating eclipse.exe with a certain file type like .eci and having eclipse.exe detect which eclipse(s) were running and control them.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dejan@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dejan@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 4:15 PM
> To: eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx; platform-update-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [eclipse-dev] Web-triggered updates
>
>
> Since January integration builds, Update component supports
> Web-triggered
> update technology. This powerful new capability allows
> providers to set up
> web sites with whatever technology and layout they want, and
> simply use
> special URLs to call back into Eclipse and initiate a feature
> install. You
> can read about it in the following document:
>
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-update-home/doc/working/web-triggered-updates.html
