You can edit your server startup script and in the line when you start the server you can add -D params. -Dkey="Value". Inside your webapp or services or Jsp's you can get the parameter by System.getProperty("key")
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Browse All TopicsI would like to define a application specific variable. When the application start up, I can load it into some context variable. Then, some java bean can access these context and do something with the defined variable. Is there any way to do it?
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by: rrz@871311Posted on 2008-01-28 at 09:08:20ID: 20760878
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You could define one in your web app's web.xml ;
<context-param>
<param-name>name</param-na
<param-value>jaxox</param-
</context-param>
On a JSP, you could access with
String name = application.getInitParamet
>Then, some java bean can access these context and do something with the defined variable
(I think you are talking about a javabean here,not a EJB. Please confirm.)
That will take some more work. Please read jim's solution and my assisted solution at
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