Shibboleth Developers

[Andrew Petro <>]

> [Maven WAR overlays as implemented by Jasig CAS] seemed pretty nice 
for certain things

I agree.  Maven WAR overlays as implemented by the Jasig CAS project are 
very nice for the problems they solve, at the cost of some (perhaps 
necessary) complexity.

Not looking to foist Maven upon the Shibboleth IdP, especially if it is 
unwelcome, but it is worth appreciating what problems CAS is 
successfully solving with the technology.

Andrew



On 02/17/2011 04:10 PM, Brent Putman wrote:
> If we're going to consider a Maven-based approach, one idea I'd suggest
> is that we should look at supporting Maven WAR overlays, at least for
> the war build portion.  The CAS project uses that for their stuff, and
> when I looked at it a while ago, it seemed pretty nice for certain
> things, like allowing people maintain a customized web.xml. It also
> might be a good way to support IdP plugins without requiring people to
> maintain the extensions in the IdP dist directory itself.
>
>
> On 2/17/11 11:28 AM, Chad La Joie wrote:
> > I honestly don't know, yet.  There's a whole lot I don't like about ant
> > but I've also not found anything better either.
> >
> > On 2/17/11 11:25 AM, Tom Zeller wrote:
> > > Will the IdPv3 installer still be a shell script which calls ant ?
> > >
> > > I am interested as I am looking at reconfiguring grouper/ldappcng.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > TomZ