Deployment specific configuration - best practice

I'm trying to figure out the best way to set-up deployment specific configurations.
From what I've seen I can configure things like session timeouts and datasources. What I'd like to configure is a set of programmatically accessible parameters. We're connecting to a BPM server and we need to configure the URL, username and password, and make these available to our operating environment so we can set-up the connection.
Can we set-up the parameters via a deployment descriptor?
What about Foreign JNDI? Can I create a simple JNDI provider(from a file perhaps?) and access the values?
Failing these, I'm looking at stuffing the configuration into the database and pulling it from there.
Thanks

Which version of the product are you using?
Putting the configs in web.xml config params as in this example:
https://codesamples.samplecode.oracle.com/servlets/tracking/remcurreport/true/template/ViewIssue.vm/id/S461/nbrresults/103
Will allow you to change the values per deployment easily with a deployment plan.
Another alternative 10.3.2 and later is to use a features that allows resources like normal properties files to be overloaded by putting them in the plan directory. I don't have the link to this one right now.

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There has been no updates to this doc for almost 4 years.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_tech_note09186a0080810880.shtml
That's a long time for wireless, especially since it still references release 5.2, and we now it's 7.0. Plus quite a few new AP families have been announced, 802.11n, Cleanair, etc. I think this document is overdue for an update. Has there not been any lessons learned since 2008? Can anyone from Cisco comment on this?

Guys:
I agree with you. many docs are old, pretty old.
You can use the Feedback button at the bottom of the doc page and send your feedback to Cisco.
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