[Building Sakai] CAS and other filter configuration for login tool

[Aaron Zeckoski]

Gotcha. That makes sense to me and I am a fan of the improvement. I'll
add it to the CLE team agenda for tomorrow.
-AZ

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:58 PM, John Bush <john.bush at rsmart.com> wrote:
> it controls the CAS/shib config.  Its not tied to the
> sakai-configuration.xml, because it needs to be loaded at the webapp
> lifecycle, you wouldn't be able to do that with that older mechanism
> b/c there is no web context to deal with the filters, I'm certain
> spring would not like that.  I put a ticket up so people can look at
> it, might make more sense with something to look at.
>
> The nice thing is for implementors you can adjust your config and then
> recycle the login-tool to apply config changes, no need to restart the
> whole tomcat and component mgr.
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:
>> I like the idea but I thought that there was already the ability to
>> load spring config using an xml file in sakai home (or are you saying
>> you leveraged this existing functionality in order to control the
>> CAS/shib config).
>>
>> -AZ
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:58 PM, John Bush <john.bush at rsmart.com> wrote:
>>> I did some work yesterday that I'm not sure anyone else cares about.
>>> But if someone is interested let me know and I'll submit a jira/patch.
>>>
>>> We had a long standing issue of configuring CAS/Shib and other signon
>>> mechanisms that require servlet filters.  The issue is that you have
>>> to modify web.xml's to configure these things.  That mucks up our
>>> whole binary deployment model, and leads to a bunch of annoying
>>> practices for managing those changes.
>>>
>>> So what I did was create a way to drop a spring config file in
>>> sakai.home that wires up your filters with their configuration.  I
>>> built on Spring's DelegatingFilterProxy and ContextLoader to do this
>>> in a way that works if you have this file in your sakai.home folder or
>>> not.
>>>
>>> Like I said if this has value to anyone else let me know.
>>> --
>>> John Bush
>>> 602-490-0470
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> John Bush
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