OpenSAML Velocity templates for POST etc. responses

[Grady, Michael Allen]

On Jan 3, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
> 
> No, that's not advisable. It's best to avoid touching internal.xml.

I understand that going forward that would be ideal, but aren't there already occasions where one would edit "internal.xml", like potentially for Session Lifetime?
 
> 
> The way you override the templates is just by dropping replacement copies
> with the same names into WEB-INF/classes/templates and then doing the
> install. The downside is you have to remember to copy them into any new
> source tree across upgrades, but it's not a big deal to have that tracked
> locally in some upgrade docs.

That would be in the IdP's source tree? So you'd create a "classes/templates" directory in the 'src/main/webapp/WEB-INF' directory of the install tree?

> 
> You don't need to change the names. The local copy takes precedence over
> the jar copy.
> 
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