Understanding flow / federation

[Peter Schober]

* Bo Lorentsen <bl at moch.dk> [2012-09-24 11:39]:
> Ok, I find the description of default, specified or anonymous relaying 
> parties, but how does the default setup bind these to the idP metadata, 
> just as an example ? This must then be the answer to how I add a new 
> one. When the doc talks about meta data, it tells about 
> EntityDescriptor, with sounds like the metadata file itself, but not 
> anything about the MetadataProvider :-)

Documentation home:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Home
-> Configure
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Configuration
-> IdP: Communicate with a New Service Provider
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPSPCommunicate
-> Communication Basics: Loading its metadata
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPMetadataProvider

Note that instead of adding a new MetadataProvider for each new
Service Provider usually better to collect several EntityDescriptors
(SPs) in one file (if you need to aggregate and maintain those
entities yourself) and feed that file in a single MetadataProvider to
the IdP.
You can then configure that MetadataProvider to automatically reload
metadata, without having to restart the container or automatically
reload relying-party.xml itself.
-peter