Resources.

[Rod Widdowson]

> Is that interface temporary? Asking whether I should suggest an alternate
> name.

I expect that to be permanent (or at least for as long as OpenSAML remains
untainted by Spring), but name suggestions are always welcome.  
  
> If I understand the issue, I think there are probably two ways of doing
> this, one limited to only certain use cases. If a bean could be created
> that acts to load additional resources, then I think you could create
> fully-configured Resource beans and inject them into the loader bean and
> have it load the resource into the parent context. But that only works for
> some scenarios, anything built-in that only took a URI probably couldn't
> be used.

I think that works.  I'll need to look at it in the code..
 
> The really ugly way is to bury the configuration into part of the custom
> URL syntax.

Oh yes, I was carefully avoiding suggesting that idea (or at least I did
once I looked at the potential parameterization).

/Rod