Shibboleth Developers

[Andrew Petro <>]

Yes.  This is the best and easiest way to do this, using configuration 
in web.xml to enumerate the Spring context files that the Spring 
framework should traverse and wire up.

Jasig CAS does this.

https://source.jasig.org/cas3/trunk/cas-server-webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml

See the "contextConfigLocation" parameter.

CAS is demonstrating two clever things there.  One is declaring a 
pattern, such that deployers can drop additional Spring configuration 
files in /WEB-INF/spring-configuration/ and those additional files will 
be wired in.

The other is separating out a "deployerConfigContext.xml" file 
specifically for the Spring-wired components that deployers are most 
expected to reconfigure.

Andrew



On 09/24/2010 02:42 PM, Scott Cantor wrote:
> > You can modify the application web.xml to list additional Spring
> > configuration files to be loaded. So you can create your own configuration
> > file independent of Shib.
> >      
> Ah, great, thanks. Should have remembered to look there.
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> -- Scott
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