Christopher Schultz wrote: Flavius,
Flavius wrote: My ultimate goal is to give these instructions to a network admin: 1. Download and install Tomcat 2. Place war file in <TomcatDir>/webapps 3. Put the app.properties file at __________ and set your database and email server info. 4. Start tomcat Something even cooler would be to provide a simple text editor that would load your properties file from the WAR and write it back into the WAR when you saved it. Then you get the best of both worlds. - -chris Just to mention, there are cases when a JNDI would do the trick and sometimes (not always) like a system property would do. regards Flavio
