Best practice for storing configuration data

[Simone - Dev]

Title: Messaggio

Today I run into an dubt:

is the way I always used to store application dependent configuration is correct?

 

I use to store this kind of information in the we.xml file using <context-param> like this one

 

 <context-param>
  <param-name>uploadedFilePath</param-name>
  <param-value>D:/Documenti/Progetti/jClubHouse/build/uploadedFiles/</param-value>
  <description>The path to save the uploadedFiles to</description>
 </context-param>

 

and then inside actions, I retrieve it using

 

String uploadDir=getServlet().getServletContext().getInitParameter("uploadedFilePath");

 

 

is there a better practice or is this the right one?

 

Simone

 

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