Check4Update - Resource Monitoring

This is one of many points where the Check for Update project can offer a solution. Check for Update implements a server application which allows the user to monitor any number of online resources for updates and changes. The different types of online resources that are supported are static and dynamic HTML or XML based websites, simple text files, rss feeds, webservice calls and many others.
The Check4Update can be configured by using the Check4Update web interface. There is no need to install extra programs or tools on the user’s pc.

Check4Update does not only support the pure check-up of changes, the user could also use keywords or regular expressions as criteria of modification. Furthermore there are functions to archive resources and to view them later on or compare two archived versions.

After the first functional release of Check4Update (which was a lot of work), Manfred has left the project because of his finished computer science study.

Futher versions where then released by Martin in the course of a follow-up student project.

Now the project has reached a point where it works quite well, so that Manfred and I have decided to host the project on sourceforge. But please not that the service is still more or less untested and further work must be done to reach a stable state.

Currently the sources of the project will be over-worked to provide a good starting point for further extensions and improvements.

The Check4Update sources are currently not available for download but a demo installation is available.

For those of you that are interested in trying out the demo version of check4update, please send me an email to thelian at users.sourceforge.net.

Check4Update is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Any questions? Contact Martin Thelian

Other project I'm involved in: jSoapServer, YaCy