Shibboleth Developers

[Tom Scavo <>]

On 7/6/05, Walter Hoehn 
<>
 wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Tom Scavo wrote:
> 
> > Are you suggesting that the plugin directly read the definitive
> > versions of the metadata and gridmap files stored in the GridShib home
> > directory (or the IdP home directory if we go that route)?  I'm not so
> > sure this is a good idea.  Shouldn't the files in $IDP_HOME$ be copied
> > over to the tomcat directory after they've been modified?
> 
> Depending on the tomcat configuration, this might not even be
> possible.  Tomcat can run without expanding the .war files (that's
> how I do it).  As Scott mentioned, the whole reason we moved to the
> model of a separate configuration directory, $IDP_HOME$, is because
> folks didn't understand the process of updating the contents of .war
> files.

Good point.  So I'm back to my original question: Does the plugin
directly read the files in $IDP_HOME$?  Is that the recommended
approach?

Thanks,
Tom