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If Beacon is distributed as a Java Web Start application, does this mean Web Start will download the entire Beacon application (all 4Mb+ of it) everytime I run Beacon?

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If Beacon is distributed as a Java Web Start application, does this mean Web Start will download the entire Beacon application (all 4Mb+ of it) everytime I run Beacon?

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No. Web Start will periodically check for Beacon updates, and will not download the entire 4Mb every time you run the app. Only when the Beacon app has been updated will Web Start download the new version. When the developers at JXTA.org release new versions of their library jar files and I deem it worthwhile to use the new library, I will upload that to the Beacon Web Start area on my site. Because the JXTA.org folks sign their jar files with an “ephemeral” key, you will have to do an ‘Accept’ in Web Start on their signature each time I upload the new jar file.