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If your application uses an attribute authority (AA) for attribute queries, you should copy the AA metadata to /WEB-INF/saml2/sp/metadata folder together with the IDP metadata file. The name of each file is insignificant, but should have the suffix .xmlfile names must match, for example metadata.xml and metadata.href.

Key rotation

In order to use Key Rotation feature and update IDP/AA metadata automatically a ".href" file must exist. Don't be confused with the file extension since it is just a normal properties file in "key=value" format.

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The example:

entityId=https://localhost:8443/uas
type=AAIDP
url=https://localhost:8443/uas/saml2/metadata.xml
refreshInterval=20

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