Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

Okay, wording changed and I tried to put a little verbiage out there
about the Installation document.

Chad La Joie wrote:
> The error you saw is because you didn't set the change a <version> tag
> per Step 1.2.  And reading the wording I currently have for that I can
> understand why.  I'll fix that up after I send this email.
> 
> As to how you chose to distribute and have people install the plugin,
> that's up to you and it's going to depend on what exactly your plugin
> is.  For example, a filter engine match functor is going to have a
> different installation process than a login handler that requires an
> additional Servlet be configured.  In the simplest case you tell people
> to put the jar in the IDP src directory and re-run the installer.
> 
> Right now these instructions are solely about how to get people up and
> running with building extensions.  I'd note that they aren't super
> useful at the moment because the IdP artifacts aren't posted in the Shib
> maven repository yet.  That'll happen with 2.1.  2.0 wasn't built with
> Maven and I never took the time to do all the manual deployment of
> artifacts.  Also, one of our guys here at SWITCH is writing an extension
> as well and noticed some typos in the LoginHandler sub-page.  He said
> he'd fix them up once he got through everything and was sure it all
> worked which I suspect would probably be tomorrow.
> 
> André Cruz wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I'm writing an IDP extension and following the
>> https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/IdPDevCustomExtension guide.
>> It is well written but there are some things missing.
>>
>> - After step 6, what next? I tried a "mvn install" but maven complained:
>>
>> [INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.
>>
>> Missing:
>> ----------
>> 1)
>> edu.internet2.middleware:shibboleth-identityprovider:jar:SHIBBOLETH_VERSION
>>
>>
>> Maybe the extension code should be placed somewhere related to the IDP
>> code?
>>
>> - Where do we put additional jars that our extension needs so that they
>> will be copied along with the extension jar? Or does the jar get created
>> and then we manually copy everything to some directory in the IDP tree?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> André
> 

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