Metadata Generation

[Tom Zeller]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
> On 9/23/14, 3:58 AM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
>>
>>It did occur to me that idp.properties has all the information needed to
>>do
>>simple metadata configuration:  entityID, tls and signing keys and
>>(eventually) back channel support and so it is the natural source for
>>information for a program to go between a template metadata file and an
>>example metadata file.
>
> Something akin to what my metagen script in the SP does is probably good
> enough for a start, but in Java code rather than shell.

Just a comment that one option I temporarily committed for the cert
generation scripts was a Spring application in order to read
idp.properties with placeholder resolution. If a CLI app needs
properties, that seems a potential way to go.