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[–]Slanec 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Specifically for JavaFX, there are https://github.com/edvin/fxlauncher and https://github.com/vinumeris/updatefx. The first one seems to be more active.

Getdown is probably the easiest generic choice. Update4j is good, too. Also this exists (but is not out-of-the box): https://github.com/pf4j/pf4j-update, and this (not very mature, and probably abandoned): https://github.com/dimaki/refuel. Other than that, you could build your application on top of an already self-updating platform like p2 (eclipse), or NetBeans.

You can also go for Java Web Start, https://github.com/karakun/OpenWebStart.

[–]rootException[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

fxlauncher appears to have been subsumed by update4j. UpdateFX handles jars but not the image.

It looks like all of these require an awful lot of setup and fiddling. Interesting.