Testbed configuration

[Cantor, Scott]

> In looking around for some pointers, I have found other "testbed"
> questions being asked in shibboleth-users, where it was suggested
> that the question be moved to shibboleth-dev, so I thought I'd
> start here. Apologies if it's the wrong place.

It is. The testbed you're seeing messages about is an Eclipse project we use for internal testing of the projects, it has nothing to do with setting up the actual software for testing. You can't use the Eclipse testbed for any real world purpose, it's just a development aid for us or those developing plugins.

You have to install the software for real to do anything with them, and the more artificial you try and get, the harder it is to make them work. That extends to things like using localhost, etc. It makes things much, much harder.

The jetty-base project at present is just a set of files that mostly correspond to the documented examples we put into the wiki on basic set up of the container.

-- Scott