Best practice: storing user input as application wide config

example: a webmail application is deployed as a war-file to a server. the fresh deployed app now needs to read info from the user (mail-host, username, password, etc.).
what is the best way to store this information permanently on the serverside for as long as the app is not undeployed (i.e. persistent even after server reboot)?
thx

and what if i wanted an installer (setup script) that stores database connect info from a submitted html form?
basically i need a standard way of storing data without unpacking the war and editing a .xml file. kind of chicken and egg issue.

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