Does anyone have any information on autoupdaters w/ CfD? I'm fairly new to the process, but I'm trying to add autoupdating functionality to my application, autodownloading new releases. Would I have to create a main JAR file that would replace the code, or something else...? It's a relatively small app so I think replacing everything may be fine

i know mac app store had a hard-fast rule about not having any in-app update process. But who says we have to go with mac app store anyways 😅

haha yeah I'm going to go with a .dmg most likely. I still have to get it notarized as well, so that'll be fun

You should be ok with autoupdaters for Java apps, assuming you don't publish on app stores (if you do you need a build with the autoupdater disabled)

I used update4j for mine, which required making a separate updater app (you can't use a java app to update itself as it has a file lock on its jars). But if I were doing it again, I'd look into jDeploy too to see if it's easier/viable.

I tried jDeploy, but unless I'm doing something wrong, I simply can not get it to work

Hey guys, my company has developed a tool that makes it very easy to create and deploy self-updating packages for CfD apps (amongst other things). It's in private beta now.