Setup of the local development for Shibboleth and the corresponding development of plugins for Shibboleth

[Fuchs, Michael]

Good day,

I am an employee of the Central IT of the University of Applied Sciences Munich and at the same time I will write my master thesis of the IT Security course in the research project "Zero Trust Networking" of Prof. Dr. Thomas Schreck. Specifically, I would like to implement the Shared Signal and Events Framework (https://sharedsignals.guide/) of the OpenID Foundation within Shibboleth as a proof-of-concept. 

In the last weeks I was able to familiarize myself with the Confluence pages of the Shibboleth project as well as the training material of the DFN (). Furthermore I was able to have a look at some code. 

The next thing I would like to do is to enable a local development environment of Shibboleth, so I can get it running in my development environment. In this context I have the following questions:
I would like to know how you build the setup for local development of Shibboleth as well as for the associated plugins? 
Do you use a docker-compose stack for all dependencies, such as database, LDAP, etc.?
Which of the project's java-identity-provider artifacts will be deployed inside Tomcat?
What arguments, configurations, or even env variables are used to start Shibboleth during development? 
Can you provide me with further documentation or help so that I can start developing? 

Thanks in advance for answering the questions.

I am especially looking forward to an exchange with you.

Best regards,
Michael Fuchs

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