I have been learning a lot through JME 3.1 SDK Beta for the past couple of months. I love it and thank you so much. However, I notice that, for the past three recent versions of JME 3.1 SDK Beta, my “Check for Updates” would be hanging indefinitely.
Yes, the update server is down for a long time.
Just skip those updates from http://updates.jmonkeyengine.org.
Note you can yet update all Netbeans related plugins. (JME SDK is based on Netbeans IDE).
b) how many years were you planning on paying for in advance? 10? 15? The issue last time was that our server deal dried up in a matter of days leaving us barely any time to grab backups. Now we seek only free solutions, not back-door deals, either… but free like really free. So we’ve moved the wiki to github, release jars and plugins on bintray, etc.