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XDS Toolkit
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Create auto-update feature #463

Open iheos opened 5 years ago

iheos commented 5 years ago

This is proposed to help update toolkit to a new version.

Typically a user want to keep their existing External Cache contents. But, sometimes that content is not compatible with the updated toolkit. Right now users are left to puzzle this out. Instead this feature would add:

On launch of toolkit UI:

stl-steve-moore commented 5 years ago

We should collaborate on my ideas for #455 that would allow the toolkit.properties to live outside of tomcat (not force it to live outside, but allow it). I will get a branch with that working so you can see the changes.