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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