I was wondering how it would be possible to have a client program automatically download updates from the server. Do most games accomplish this by simply having a dedicated update port with a server that only processes updates? Thanks Karl

Thats actually not a bad idea, maybe an entire server application dedicated to updates? What "Continuum" does (a space shooter), it tells the client that a new update is available, and then links them to the new update. Of course, if it was a commercial game they would probably just send the data from/to a socket, and it auto-reboot (or whatever). Not a bad idea..I gotta remember that for my game

In java, one can do such thing by using URLClassLoader objects...