Since when is a container restart required to refresh DS Metadata?

[Peter Schober]

* Dan McLaughlin <dmclaughlin at tech-consortium.com> [2011-09-14 19:46]:
> I don't remember it being this way in the past, but now I have to
> restart Tomcat in order to get the Discovery Service to pick up
> Metadata changes.  Stopping and starting just the DS web app doesn't
> reload the metadata either.

I'm not using the Shib DS myself but any software that requires a full
restart to pick up metadata changes is either misconfigured or broken,
IMO. So I guess you'll need to be more specific in your problem
statement.
-peter