WebStart and Metrics
My group supports a Java application which we'd like to add "auto-update" functionality to. We have a rough implementation now where we place a version text file on our web server and the software compares this with its own version to determine if an update is available. Then, if the user downloads the update, the application sends certain user information which is collected for metrics then provides the updated JAR.
We'd like to do better, and Web Start looks like it might help... but... It's not entirely obvious how we'd still be able to collect metrics if Java Web Start is managing the downloading and installing of the application. Is there a way for an application, installed via Web Start, to send information to a server-side script before running the normal Web Start stuff?
TIA
