Read about using properties files. They're typically called <name>.properties.
Snippet of code that can be placed in a ServletContextListener. String resource = "some.properties"; InputStream in = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(resource); try { props.load(in); in.close(); } catch (IOException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); // ugly } Note that this is not a complete ServletContextListener. Normally I create a separate class, have that class's constructor read the properties file, and then use the ServletContextListener to create a servlet context attribute with the information. You can use an init parameter to read the resource name from web.xml, and then pass that information to your class as an argument to the constructor. Catch exceptions (such as file not found) appropriately. The Apache commons configuration (mentioned in another message) provides a lot of nice tools for reading properties files. Place the some.properties file in src/main/resources of your Maven project. This will get it packed up in WEB-INF/classes of your war file once you run maven package. Read the javadoc on Class.getResourceAsStream() concerning how to locate the properties file. . . . . just my two cents. /mde/ ----- Original Message ---- From: srd.pl <srolek2...@yahoo.com> To: users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Sat, December 4, 2010 3:58:25 AM Subject: Place .ini conf file inside the war package. Hello, I have a quick question considering my rest webservice. I would like to place an .ini file with configuration parameters inside an war file, so that I can change them wile the app is deployed on tomcat without recompiling. Can any give an advice on how to do this? And how to open this file (what path) in my java code. I am using maven so an advice on how to write a special script in the pom.xml file would be great. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Place-.ini-conf-file-inside-the-war-package.-tp30366628p30366628.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org