Without looking at the source this is only a guess, but-
the plugin gets "upgraded" automatically when you drop a new jar file in the plugins directory. Perhaps just "touch plugin.jar" would force such an update? Might be worth a test
you could create a new thread within your plugin which restarts it every n hours if you want to do this ... it may be a quite interesting task making sure that also the restart thread terminates successfully.
I purchased a license to the enterprise plugin from Jive and I have different clients that need to manage different queues so I wrote a new administration console but there is some kind enterprise specific cache. I've been waiting to hear from Jive if there is an easy way to clear the cache for this plugin but they haven't responded. The easiest way I know of is to restart the plugin. I posted this question in the enterprise support forum http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/thread/28670 but maybe somebody here knows something.
It looks like the enterprise plugin takes advantage of caching like theopenfire server. Openfire has the ability to clear the cache throughthe admin console and changing system properties. Is there a way tochange the cache time for the enterprise plugin? Maybe a systemproperty?
see Broadcast form command line, I did extend the broadcast script a little bit and you may want to modify it to your needs. I think that this is a very nice way to restart the plugin using cron.
One should monitor also the STDOUT log file and look for "Starting Enterprise Server" to make sure that the restart was really successful.
