[ome-devel] Insight webstart offline flag

[Niko Ehrenfeuchter]

Hi Simon,

worked, I've received the CC subscription message!

Thanks a lot!
~Niko

On 26.03.2015 17:53, Simon Li wrote:
> Hi Niko
>
> I've created a ticket, you should be cc-ed on it:
> https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/ticket/12803
>
> At first glance it looks like it's because
> lib/python/omeroweb/webstart/templates/webstart/insight.xml contains
>
>      <shortcut online="false">
>        <desktop/>
>      </shortcut>
>
> Simon
>
>
> On 26 March 2015 at 16:05, Niko Ehrenfeuchter
> <nikolaus.ehrenfeuchter at unibas.ch
> <mailto:nikolaus.ehrenfeuchter at unibas.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Dear developers,
>
>     for quite a while we are using the webstart functionality to deploy and
>     update Insight on our various user's machines, and since the
>     certificates issues were fixed, it has been working really nicely
>     for us!
>
>     Now just recently, we figured out that the desktop shortcut for starting
>     Insight contains the "--offline" flag which causes Java Webstart to use
>     the version cached locally, instead of checking with the OMERO server if
>     a newer one would be available. Even when manually removing the flag,
>     starting Insight to trigger the version check (causing an upgrade from
>     5.0.5 to 5.0.8 in our case) eventually results in the shortcut being
>     updated to contain the offline flag *again* - ignoring future version
>     mismatches in the same manner as before.
>
>     That's quite a serious issue for us as it means we'd have to manually
>     fix Insight for about 60+ active users, for a significant fraction of
>     them even on multiple different machines as they're using it in a
>     workstation pool.
>
>     Is this behaviour intended? Is there a workaround (configuration)
>     for it?
>
>     Any idea how to fix this is highly appreciated!
>
>     Thanks a lot for your help
>     ~Niko
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of Basel | Klingelbergstr. 50/70 | CH-4056 Basel
Phone: +41 (61) 26 72673 | nikolaus.ehrenfeuchter at unibas.ch | 
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