Updating a bundled JRE

Question

I'm wanting to bundle my application with a JRE, much in the manner explained in this question , or further explained in this blog .

Once you have bundled your JRE into your application is there a way to provide updates to that JRE?

Answer 1

Most obvious answer is: You can provide JRE updates with your software updates , ie new SFX. You can also write a script which will handle contents of archive, but is seems too messy for me. Of course it depends of whether application extracts JRE each time you want to run it OR just once and then checks: if it had been extracted before then launch extracted app or extract and launch newly extracted app. In first case you can provide updates pretty easily.