12.7. Summary

This chapter has introduced you to the update facilities in the NetBeans Platform. Firstly, you saw how the Auto Update service works. An NBM file is an update package and can be created from your module by the NetBeans IDE. Next, you learned how to provide and configure update centers. You also saw how a module is configured to provide a localized version of an existing module. Finally, we dealt with the configuration of update centers on the client side and how updates can be installed automatically.