Mostly for Scott: bean load order definition

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/9/15, 9:48 AM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:



>On 10/9/15, 9:20 AM, "dev on behalf of Rod Widdowson" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>>I see that in R7721 we introduce a bean (shibboleth.CustomViewContext) at
>>the very top of global-system.xml so that a bean of that name always exists.
>>Then we rely on someone redeclaring it global.xml to be what they really
>>want.
>
>I'll see if I can work around it, but I was aware I did it. I thought that they did document "last one wins" somewhere, but if not I agree I should find another way.

It's verbose, but I can add containsBean checks to the flow files to avoid having to declare a dummy bean, so I'll do that.

My opinion is we should avoid the technique unless it substantially improves *user* level configuration of something.

-- Scott