Escher Group, Ltd. is setting new standards for distributed Post Office automation with their middleware messaging system, Riposte. The latest addition to Riposte's capabilities includes a secure, reliable distribution system for dynamically updating help files on a client's machine, via HTML files over the Internet. HTML updates are transparent to end users, requiring no manual file management at all. The power to customize and configure the system for performance is built-in, but it's available at the right level to knowledgeable users.
End users have access to the help files even in the event that the network is down.
A Riposte client accesses locally-stored HTML files through a network browser built into the Riposte Desktop user interface. The browser accesses only HTML files that have been issued by authorized content managers. The update process is managed entirely by the client and server. Riposte's Message Store alerts the client that new HTML files should be downloaded. The content managers don't need to know how many current clients exist, or where they're located on the network.