Shibboleth Developers

[Walter Hoehn <>]

On Jul 6, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Tom Scavo wrote:
> On 7/6/05, Walter Hoehn 
> <>
>  wrote:
> > On Jul 6, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Tom Scavo wrote:
> > 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?

That is what I'm recommending, yes.  I think it simplifies things  
quite a bit for you.  If you want it to be harder for the build  
script to overwrite the stuff in this directory, we can certainly  
work on that.

-Walter