Conf folder -- Changes require restart?

[Peter Schober]

* Y Levine <ylevine20 at gmail.com> [2018-02-01 21:54]:
> If we change any of the '.properties' or '.xml' in the 'conf' folder
> --- would a restart to the Java container (Tomcat in our case) be
> required?

Yes for properties, those are JVM wide settings.
No for /some/ of the things configured in XML files:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP30/ReloadableServices#ReloadableServices-ReloadingServices

-peter