Any documents for how to build the shib idp from the source code and how to run and debug the idp?

[Christopher Bongaarts]

On 10/15/2012 4:54 PM, Paul Hethmon wrote:
> I follow what I learned from Kernighan and Ritchie long ago, use printf.
> Or in this case, make use of the extensive and easily controlled logging
> using logback.
>
> The code is complex, you could spend hours stepping through a debugger.
> Instead, turn up the debug level to TRACE and see how many gigabytes of
> data one request can create. If you don't see something, then add some
> debugging statements and recompile.

This is what we have done as well (though using DEBUG not TRACE ;)

Also, I found it helpful to use an editor like Eclipse that will let you 
easily jump from the invocation of a  function/method/etc. to its 
definition.  This is helpful when, for example, learning the flow of the 
AuthnEngine.

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