System.setProperty/System.getProperty

[Farrow, Marc]

Is there an easy way within Tomcat to set System properties so that all
webapps have access to them at startup?  Basically, I would like to add my
own properties to the System object at startup as opposed to using
environment entries.  Maybe I am over thinking things.  Or better yet, what
is the best way to use Resource Locales per O.S.?  We test/deploy on win2k
but have live server of OpenVMS.  The main reason I need this is because File
I/O is a lot different between the platforms.
 
Thanks,
 
Marc