About IdP V2 and spring versions

[Cantor, Scott]

> It turns out that this is a Spring artefact introduced somewhere between
> 2.5.6 and 4.1.3 - our code is pretty much unchanged.  I've not chased up the
> why or when.

I suspect in 3, which is when they changed the XML type of id to string. Whenever they did it, they added auto-aliasing of beans with the name attribute (you can put multiple names in). Of course, the weird thing is to have that happen in the custom parser. That's the bit that seems weird, I didn't think they ever looked at the XML in the normal Spring way in that case.

> A question for Brent is whether I should retrofit whatever fix I make in V3
> back to V2?

Can we even fix it? Maybe by a bean factory post processor or something?

-- Scott