Opinions on "conditional" Spring files

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/2/18, 5:44 PM, "dev on behalf of O'Dowd, Josh" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of Josh.O'Dowd at mso.umt.edu> wrote:

> I am looking forward to the day when Web-flow offers Java-based configuration.

Annotations are fine for prototypes and for local add-ons, but it's impossible for us to use in the core.
 
It will never work with SWF anyway, it's a virtually dead project that isn't getting any functional updates.

> Having done some Spring/Spring-> security projects with fully annotated Java config (no xml), the project clutter is a
> non-issue, and allows for better encapsulation practices.

Yes, but we can't hardwire our system.

> By way of feedback, UM is using files like /conf/authn/authn-events-flow.xml and /conf/intercept/intercept-events-
> flow.xml, if those are the types of files you are referring to.

No, I'm talking about beans files only, and it doesn't work with beans imported into flows at all.

-- Scott