A maven approach to deploying the Idp

[Walter Forbes Hoehn (wassa)]

Agreed.  Many, many moons ago this was the way the IdP worked.  It didn’t take us long to realize this wasn’t a path forward.  It’s awkward to administer and imposes system downtime when none should be needed.

-Walter

> On May 4, 2015, at 4:15 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
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> On 5/4/15, 4:52 PM, "Misagh Moayyed" <mmoayyed at unicon.net> wrote:
> 
> "Redeployments are required for changes, because the IdP runtime is modified to not point to an external location outside the webapp, as it did previously with references to /opt/shibboleth-idp for instance by default, but inside its own context. Therefore, any changes that are applied to a local overlay
> need to redeployed and repackaged to be included in the same webapp."
> 
> That's a non-starter for any deployment that isn't just a toy.