Re: [higgins-dev] STS Configuration Question

[Michael McIntosh <mikemci@xxxxxxxxxx>]

higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/21/2007 01:21:05 PM:

> Mike,
> 
> Just a couple of questions about STS configuration.  We've been 
> looking at the new code for the STS and don't quite follow how the 
> STS gets initialized and configured.  Here is what we see:
> 
> 1. SecurityTokenServiceServerBinding.configure() gets called and 
> calls configurationHandler.configure(null).  This appears to be done
> so that the STS can be obtained via the call 
> getSecurityTokenService() which gets the configured STS from a map 
> that is created using the key "SecurityTokenService".
> 
> 2. ConfigurationHandler.configure() does the setting up of the STS 
> by reading the config xml.  The following code we're guessing sets up 
the STS:
> 
> org.eclipse.higgins.configuration.common.MapHandler mapHandler = new
> org.eclipse.higgins.configuration.common.MapHandler();
> mapGlobalSettings = new java.util.Hashtable();
> try
> {
> mapGlobalSettings = (java.util.Map)mapHandler.getSetting
> ("STSConfiguration",
> strConfigurationBase,
> mapSettingHandlers,
> mapGlobalSettings,
> omSetting);
> }
> catch (Exception e)
> {
> log.error(e.getLocalizedMessage());
> throw e;
> }
> 
> From here we are interested to know where the SecurityTokenService 
> is instantiated and its .configure method called.  If you could just
> quickly fill in the gaps for us, it would be very helpful.

Look at how the Singleton and Instance Setting Handlers work - they load 
the Factory and create an object - then they call configure on it.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
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