building war file during upgrade

[Peter Schober]

* Jeremy Shapiro <jnshapiro at gmail.com> [2016-02-02 15:08]:
> The upgrade steps (
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP30/Upgrading) include
> installing the distribution and then building the war file from the target
> directory "with any edits".  What sort of edits would necessitate
> rebuilding the war file?  I would have expected that all the config files,
> credentials, and webapp content is loaded during runtime.

Any edits you may have found necessary to be made in the edit-webapp
directory. If you have had no reason to place anything there, you're
done.

E.g. Tomcat does not come with the JSTL jar, so if you wanted
/idp/status to work you'd have to add that to edit-webapp and rebuild.
Cf. "Java Server Tag Library" in "Required Configuration Changes":
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP30/ApacheTomcat8
-peter