General talk about software patterns

[Donald McLean <dmclean AT stsci.edu>]

I don't know about the pattern literature, but this kind of thing can be 
done with custom class loaders in JVM environments (and possibly other 
virtual machines).


On 3/12/12 2:46 PM, Dragos Manolescu wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I'm building a system that needs the ability to self-update (software)
> from the network, at run time. This is an area I don't have first hand
> experience with but I know that it's been done for years--for example,
> telecom switches. If you know of patterns that focus on
> self-updateable software I would appreciate your pointing me their
> way.