How to detect which development environment I'm in (J2EE app)

Question

I need a way to tell which development environment I'm in (dev, test, uat, prod). How is this accomplished. The app is a Java web app, running on WebSphere. I'm more of a pure programmer, so I'm not so well versed in architecture/framework.
Thanks!
-Nathan

Answer 1

I want the front-end to be able to tell.
I think I may have found an acceptable solution. I found an Oracle function that I can use that will return to me which db environment I'm in:
FUNCTION GET_INSTANCE_NAME RETURN VARCHAR2
IS
the_instance_name VARCHAR2(512);
BEGIN
-- This is an alternate method of getting the same info:
-- SELECT property_value FROM database_properties WHERE property_name = 'GLOBAL_DB_NAME';
select sys_context('userenv','db_name') INTO the_instance_name from dual;
RETURN the_instance_name;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
RETURN NULL;
END GET_INSTANCE_NAME;