Sorry! but quick question about installing the SAML delegation extension

[Karla Borecky]

The target contains the actual .jar file (shibboleth-idp-delegation-1.0.jar
- I typed the wrong filename yesterday) *and* a zip/tar.gz file! This is
why I was confused. So when I unpack the tar.gz file, *there* is the
elusive lib directory, containing both the actual extension jar and another
supporting one. Ah. So now we are all on the same page! And now the
instructions from step 1 of the readme file make perfect sense.

I think having the other directories created in the target directory lead
me down the proverbial garden path, because I had the jar file ready to go,
so I was looking there for a lib directory. But the files were mostly
classes, so didn't look right... blah blah blah. Ordinarily, if I see an
archive-format file, I think 'the stuff is in here.'

Oh well. Back on track now. Thank you for your extended help. I'm off to
try it all out!

best,
Karla B

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Brent Putman <putmanb at georgetown.edu>wrote:

>
>
> On 4/16/12 4:56 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
> >
> >>      1)  Copy the extension project jar file
> (shibboleth-idp-delegation-x.x-
> >> bin.jar) to the IdP source distribution's lib directory.
>
>
> IIRC correctly, the actual extension jar shouldn't have "-bin" in the
> name.  Don't confuse it with the bin zip/tar.gz archive that the Maven
> build will create in /target.  You want the raw jar file, not a
> distribution archive.  Actually, after you build the extension, you need
> to unpack the zip/tar.gz extension archive in order to get what you need
> to install.  Don't forget about the extension dependencies which will be
> in the unpacked extensions /lib directory.  I think this one has at
> least 1 jar dependency, perhaps more.
>
>
> >>      and maybe include a reference to instructions on the step before
> this
> >> that uses maven to create the jar file? (which I can't actually lay my
> hands on
> >> now...) Actually, maybe the maven build instructions could be step 1,
> and
> >> then step 2 would be to copy the resulting jar file into the IdP source
> lib
> >> directory. (Thanks for setting me straight on that! Duh.)
> > The jar should be available as part of a distribution of the extension,
> I don't think you have to build it from source...
>
>
> I don't think we've ever provided an "official" binary build of the
> extension.  It wasn't really intended that people build from source,
> hence the lack of Maven build instructions.  But this project never
> really got to the point of a "release", given where things got left off
> with the intended initial deployer.
>
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Karla Borecky
Systems Administrator
ITS
Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
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