Friday, December 9, 2011

Overriding OpenAM classes


I was trying to change some behavior in OpenAM core components and I find the easiest way to do it is:
  • Modify the OpenAM source code
  • Compile the Java class
  • Deploy the compiled class in ../WEB-INF/classes
  • Restart OpenAM

The application container will let /WEB-INF/classes take priority over the class in the jar file residing in the /WEB-INF/lib directory. Nice!

In fact, it's not recommended to put back the modified class into the original jar file. I find that ugly in practice.

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