Shibboleth Developers

[Leif Johansson <>]

On Tuesday 22 September 2009 07.35.33 Chad La Joie wrote:
> This has come up a couple times and I'd just like to gauge the current
> feeling on the topic.
>
> Currently the IdP is bundled as a standard Java web application (WAR).
> This means that people have to set up a Servlet container of some sort
> in order to run the IdP.  My thinking for a while has been that we
> should move to a model where the IdP is a standalone application.  That
> is, it would require that Java be installed but otherwise would be fully
> self-contained.
>
> Do you agree with this?
>
> If this were the *only* distribution (i.e. no more WAR) would this be a
> problem for you?

I don't particularly like it. My preferred way of deploying an idp is inside
a jboss where (imo) management of the container is better than for a
straight apache. I don't think you can make everybody happy with the
choice of a web container. 

        Cheers Leif