Alternatives to DS deployment

[David Gersic]

>>> On 6/18/2013 at 03:21 PM, Eric Goodman <Eric.Goodman at ucop.edu> wrote: 
> Was just looking at the instructions for installing the Discovery Service 
> (https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/DSInstall) and it says 
> the following:
> 
> "The first question you should ask is whether you need to install the 
> DiscoveryService<https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Discover
> yService>. If you're working in a non-Java environment, you may find it easier 
> to build a selection page in a more native fashion, or you may find that the 
> SP alone provides enough rudimentary support to get started."

I'm far from an expert, but so far, I've seen no need for a discovery service here. We've joined InCommon, so we have them, and the SPs I've worked with individually just point back to my IdP, so no real discovery is going on.