A better way to load a shib v2 service with no configuration ?

[Tom Zeller]

> what do you mean by "a configuration resource is required
> to load the service". If I take a look at the
> shibboleth-2.0-services.xsd, the element ConfigurationResource of the
> abstract service type is declared as 0-to-unbounded.

Right, minOccurs="0" in the xsd, but in BaseService.java, if there are
no service configurations the context is not loaded :

 protected void loadContext() throws ServiceException {
  log.info("Loading new configuration for service {}", getId());

  if(serviceConfigurations == null || serviceConfigurations.isEmpty()){
   setInitialized(true);
   return;
  }

 GenericApplicationContext newServiceContext = new
GenericApplicationContext(getApplicationContext());
 ...

> Does the code itself require it or does your "GrouperTarget" service
> type overwrite the schema?

No overwrite, the grouper target implements (extends) a Service.

> A minor improvement -but still not a nice solution- is to use
> java.lang.Object as an empty bean class.

Thanks.