What do you mean by "the server's environment"? What do you mean by your "various settings"?
You can get the system properties with System.getProperties/getProperty. I use system properties to pass external configuration information to my Restlet component, whether it's running standalone or embedded in a WAR as a servlet. System properties are the *only* way to pass such information to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk apps -- in fact, Beanstalk is limited to a fixed set of environment variables -- so it's important for me not to depend on other external information in order to keep my component as portable as possible. I describe some of the details of making this work in a blog entry<http://tembrel.blogspot.com/2012/01/deploying-restlet-components-in-elastic.html>. It makes heavy use of third-party libraries Guice, Guava, and Rocoto, but the principle is the same even if you don't use them. --tim On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:20 PM, John Wismar <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey, all-**** > > ** ** > > (I’m using Restlet JEE 2.x, Tomcat7, JavaSE7.) I have my app running as a > servlet in Tomcat. Ideally, I would like to be able to copy the .war file > from one environment to another without recompiling or repackaging. I’m > trying to figure out how to retrieve information from outside the WAR, > whether it be from that Tomcat instance’s context.xml, or the server’s > environment, or some other location.**** > > ** ** > > I thought I might be able to use the app’s ServletContext, but I can’t > find my various settings inside that – if I’m even looking the right way. > (I can get environment-agnostic settings from web.xml already.)**** > > ** ** > > Is there a preferred method of getting this type of information?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks!**** > > ** ** > > --------------------------**** > > John Wismar**** > > Alldata Technology**** > > 916-478-3296**** > > ** ** > ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2918700
