Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

The IdP does using Maven, and has for many years, to build things, but
it uses ant as the engine for its installer.  Maven simply does not have
the facilities to work in the role.

On 2/17/11 5:49 PM, Andrew Petro wrote:
>> [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
>>>>
> 
> 

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