login.vm customization question

[Tom Zeller]

>>I need to add a Java class instance(s) to the incoming velocity context in order to make use of our campus cms system for cms templating.  In V2 we made use of jstl.  Any guidance?
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> There's no way to add anything to the context (short of modifying the system files). I don't know that I ever came up with a way to access classes that weren't already there, there's probably some roundabout way.

Created an issue to capture potential ways to instantiate a Java class
in a Velocity template :

https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/IDP-774