Understanding flow / federation

[Bo Lorentsen]

On 2012-09-24 11:46, Peter Schober wrote:
> 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
Thanks, the last link was new to me ... I now have added the metadata, 
time for work on the handler / filter in the idP :-)
> 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.
Will this not leave the metadata out of sync ? Not that it matters for 
your own SP's but for idP's in a federation it may be needed.
> You can then configure that MetadataProvider to automatically reload
> metadata, without having to restart the container or automatically
> reload relying-party.xml itself.
This sound nice, no you have an example ?

/BL