Shibboleth Developers

["Cantor, Scott E." <>]

> We have the notion of the default provider that can be registered, but
> the builder, marshaller and unmarshaller for that must be requested
> explicitly.  They are never returned just because you failed to find the
> specific one you asked for. I guess that could be an option, but it
> would just be trading one one fatal RuntimeException for another, like
> you said, so I'd agree that it doesn't really help much in this case.

Another avenue is to say that we should check for *some* builders, such as 
extensions like this, vs. changing every call to a built-in one. Over time, 
some might migrate from checked to unchecked, but the old checks don't hurt 
anything.

-- Scott