building SP against Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) 11g

[Scott Koranda]

Hello,

I am investigating using the Shibboleth SP version 2.5.x with
Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) 11g (11.1.1.6.x) on 64 bit RHEL5- and
RHEL6-based Linux.

I would be grateful if the community could share any
experiences, positive or negative, with running the SP with
that or similar versions of OHS (more recent than 10g) on Linux. 

Specific questions include:

* I imagine there is little to no chance that the existing
  binary RPMs for the SP could be dropped into place and used?
  I understand that "Oracle HTTP Server 11g, Release 1
  (11.1.1.6.0) is based on Apache HTTP Server 2.2.21" but I
  expect the differences are significant enough to prevent
  using binaries compiled against the Apache HTTP Server
  distributed with RHEL 5 and 6.

* How likely are the existing SP SRPMs, with "simple" edits to
  fix paths for ./configure and similar, to build against OHS?

* How likely is it that existing binary RPMs for the SP
  dependencies (log4shib, Xerces-C, XML-Security-C, ...) could
  be used and only the SP SRPM needs to be built against OHS?

* Is there any known advantage to not attempting to leverage the
  RPMs and SRPMs and instead building (and running) "in place"
  because of some peculiar OHS requirement or behavior?

Thanks,

Scott Koranda