Shibboleth Developers

[Yang Xiang <>]

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the info. Yes, you are absolutely right, I also intend to  
find a suitable extension point rather than to modify the SP.

I'll try to find out the SP architecture according to your hints.  
Thanks.

yang

在 2010-6-10，下午7:30， Scott Cantor 写道：

> > I like to modify the Shibboleth-SP slightly for my own purpose. While
> > there are some useful documentations for extending IdP, I can not  
> > find
> > any development doc about SP in the Shibboleth wiki.
>
> There really aren't any, the demand just isn't high enough to permit  
> me to spend time on that. I did spend a lot of time ensuring doxygen  
> documentation could be generated for all of the APIs across all of  
> the libraries, but that's as much as I can do when the total number  
> of people asking is less than one hand's worth.
>
> I will say that it's a very bad idea to "modify" the SP. The system  
> is full of extension points, and you should be limiting work to  
> extensions, or you should ask for (or contribute, certainly) changes  
> to meet needs that can't be addressed by those extension points.
>
> There's also a very limited sample extension "project" inside the  
> Windows SDK package on the download site in the win32 and win64  
> directories, and plenty of existing plugins to copy from.
>
> > Could anyone give a hint? I have downloaded the SP source code but I
> > want to understand a little bit more about the code structure and the
> > way how the different components work together. Is there at least a
> > high-level description anywhere?
>
> Most of the extension points are documented functionally within the  
> SP documentation in terms of how you configure the different  
> components, so that's one source of information on what the pieces  
> do. So the SP config reference is useful in this regard, but  
> obviously that's not a substitute for real architecture or design  
> material.
>
> -- Scott