autoupdate example

[outcast292]

hello .
i ve been using your plugin for so long . and it has helped me to distribute my projects .
but till now i still didn't find an efficient way to implement an automatic update to my software (i distribute it in Jlink images and jpackages builds too ) . and i ve been wondering if theres any example to do it ?
thank you for the good work

[siordache]

I'm afraid there are no examples. It can be done with update4j, but I didn't use it yet, so I can't help with details.

Because update4j needs to replace some of the JARs of your application with newer versions, these JARs should not be included in the custom runtime image produced by jlink. To do this, you need to use the customImage block, which was introduced as response to a request to allow using update4j with this plugin.

It's definitely a lot of work, but if you manage to create an example project, I will be more than glad to put a link to it on the plugin's page.