Shibboleth XML Configuration file Validation

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/28/12 11:04 AM, "Mark O'Quinn" <mark1oquinn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Well, I'm only catching the ServiceException, if something goes wrong,
>during the reload
>of the services (using the HttpServletHelper class) I trigger the
>operation of replacing the original and valid configuration files for the
>bad ones (the step 9 of my previous email), but this is something I want
>to leave it to Shibboleth, I mean, call the methods and classes
>Shibboleth uses   to handle this situation, instead of trying to recover
>from a failure by copying and replacing the files myself.

That's my point, but I guess the problem is that you can't just leave the
bad files in place, so it makes sense that you'd have to do something
extra.

>Can you please elaborate a little more about what you said, taking into
>account what I have wrote?

I don't know how the IdP handles it, and I don't really grasp Java's
concurrency model all that well, so all I was saying was, the hard work of
anything like this is making it threadsafe. If you were using C/C++, I'd
be happy to talk about it, but I'm not the one to ask about Java.

-- Scott