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Scout/Concepts/F2
F2 Updater
F2 is a simple update manager for Eclipse or Java based applications. The F2 update manager has been designed to minimize the network load for consecutive application updates and updates are executed with transactional safety.
F2 has no dependencies to eclipse scout or any other library. However the installation of f2 is supported by the technology checkbox in Scout SDK (since 3.10).
A tutorial for f2 is available here .
F2 Design Goals
- Minimal network load for live updates.
- Move cpu/memory load to "Create" of the updatesite and away from the client "Update"
- Transactional safety for updates, e.g. commit or rollback
- No lenience: The update is either done with byte by byte equality or not
- Support for Windows 7 UAC security
- Support for multiple platforms such as win32, macosx, etc.
- Complete automation of updatesite creation and update handling
- Very easy zip file handling and command line processing