Shibboleth Developers

[Walter Hoehn <>]

That's fine by me.

-Walter

On Oct 27, 2004, at 3:50 PM, Howard Gilbert wrote:
> > > ShibResource.java - I propose a change to line 67, probable bug fix.
> > > The existing code defaults to find resources from the JRE part of the
> > > classpath. I change it to use the local ClassLoader and therefore to
> > > find resources in the WEB-INF directory.
> >
> > Why?
>
> Well, all the "resources" that I am loading (configuration XML files, 
> schema
> XSD files, ...) are in the WEB-INF directory. To express this, you 
> tell the
> resource manager to use a ClassLoader associated with a Class that 
> came from
> WEB-INF. I think I had a problem getting this to work without changing 
> it
> (that is, I sure didn't propose the change just because I was reading
> through the code and spotted it). However, from first principals of 
> Java
> ClassLoaders, you choose a Class that came from the same part of the
> classpath and maybe even the same JAR or directory as the resource 
> file you
> are looking for.
>
> There is a broader background discussion of ClassLoaders as a topic on 
> the
> Wiki
>
> http://tp.its.yale.edu/shib/tiki-index.php?page=ClassLoader

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