<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hello,<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Has anyone had the situation where the vendor's metadata or the SP's metadata gets stuck in some bean.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>That only way I could release that was to restart tomcat.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>That's ok in test; but in production that will be a huge problem.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I guess the lesson is , once the metadata is loaded, if you have to change it use the same file name.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>If I changes the filename on metadata-providers.xml the used curl to reload it, I got an error.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Looking at the shib warn log, it something about the other filename is stuck in a bean and produced and error.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>If I changed the name back, reload the metadata providers with curl, it then said it was looking for the filename I changed it to in the first place.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>The only way I could clear that non sense, was to bounce tomcat.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><br><br>===========================<br><br>Thank You;<br><br>Chris Cheltenham<br>Technology Services<br>The School District of Philadelphia<br><br>Work # 215-400-5025<br>Cell # 215-301-6571</div></div></body></html>