D'oh. Thanks to both of you. I saw some references to init methods but I didn't see them used so I thought maybe it was implicit somewhere (now I see it's in SAMLConfig). For future reference, it's XMLToolingConfig::getConfig().init()/term() -- Sent from: http://shibboleth.1660669.n2.nabble.com/Shibboleth-Developers-f1660781.html