External authentication: MVC controller as alternative to servlet

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/17/15, 12:08 PM, "dev on behalf of Misagh Moayyed" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of mmoayyed at unicon.net> wrote:

> 
>If I can pitch in, generally that is not a problem. The IdP already has
>the configuration to enable annotation-based controllers, etc built in

I'm not clear *why* it does, though. If we're making any use of that outside the testbed, I'm trying to figure out what and why, because it wasn't intentional.

I think the beans are declared in part because of the SWF docs. To enable SWF you have to override the default handler mapping beans, and I think Chad just added in the beans that are declared normally by Spring that would be removed by the explicit mapping bean (thus the comment "Have to enumerate them all explicitly b/c we're overriding the built-in defaults.").

It isn't clear to me we needed those defaults. The testbed "SP" mock up uses annotations, but that should be in a separate Spring root webapp context.

-- Scott