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    copied!<p>I have a webservice running on tomcat (and working). I would like to extract the endpoint URL into a file outside the war, so that it can be changed without needing to redeploy the war. I am running locally with Tomcat 6 standalone on Windows XP.</p> <p>My thought was to have it in the Context, either as a context param or as an Environment variable. </p> <p>I wasn't sure which was better, and since I can't get the Context recognized, I have no idea which will work. So my first question, which of the entries below should I be using (if any)? </p> <pre><code>&lt;Context path="/myapp" docBase="myapp"&gt; &lt;Environment name="webserviceURI" type="java.lang.String" override="true" value="endpointURLredacted"/&gt; &lt;context-parameter&gt; &lt;name&gt;uri&lt;/name&gt; &lt;value&gt;endpointURLredacted&lt;/value&gt; &lt;/context-parameter&gt; &lt;/Context&gt; </code></pre> <p>Assuming the Environment line is correct, my code to retrieve is: </p> <pre><code>InitialContext ic = new InitialContext(); endpoint = (String)ic.lookup("webserviceURI"); </code></pre> <p>However....</p> <p>I have tried adding this in a context.xml file to the META-INF folder, and I was under the impression that when I deploy the war, to quote an answer from another question on here, "When you deploy the WAR, the context fragment (META-INF/context.xml) is copied to conf/Catalina/[host] directory." Well, that doesn't happen. I don't really want to do it that way, since I want the context to exist completely separately from the war, but it was a test to see if I could even get that far. Fail. </p> <p>So I tried adding the context xml (renamed to myapp.xml) to that folder (had to create it first) manually, but I still don't think the file is getting read. </p> <p>When I run the app I get an error like "javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name webserviceURI is not bound in this Context". </p> <p>I have tried printing out the initial context's environment:</p> <pre><code>Context: {java.naming.factory.initial=org.apache.naming.java.javaURLContextFactory,java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.apache.naming} </code></pre> <p>So I don't think the context file is getting read, no matter where I put it. </p> <p>This isn't a servlet (which maybe it should be?) if that matters. </p>
 

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