How to set new Tomcat Environment variable?

Question

I have an imported class used by my servlet that is supposed to look for an environment variable like "xxx.app.logdir". I'm having trouble setting it in Tomcat. I have tried the following (stopping and starting Tomcat with each change):
1) In \conf\server.xml file, adding under <GlobalNamingResources> <Environment name="simpleValue" type="java.lang.Integer" value="30"/>
<Environment name="xxx.app.logdir" type="java.lang.String" value="C:\\Tomcat-4-1\\logs"/>2) In my app's web.xml file <env-entry>
  <env-entry-name>xxx.app.logdir</env-entry-name>
  <env-entry-value>C:\\Tomcat-4-1\\logs</env-entry-value>
  <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
</env-entry> 3) In my \bin\startup.bat file
set xxx.app.logdir=C:\\Tomcat-4-1\\
4) On my PC's Environment variables.
Nothing has worked. In my code I have the lines
logMsg("System.getProperty('mmm.app.logdir')=" +
System.getProperty("xxx.app.logdir"));
logMsg("System.getProperty('simpleValue')=" +
System.getProperty("simpleValue")); with the output :System.getProperty('xxx.app.logdir')=null
System.getProperty('simpleValue')=null I've searched forums and the Tomcat docs, but no luck. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I tried that as well, but maybe I didn't define my DefaultContect correctly. Do I need any other parameters? Couldn't find it in the Tomcat docs. <DefaultContext>
<Environment name="matt" type="java.lang.String" value="value1" />
</DefaultContext>My new code (I simplified the variable name for testing):
System.out.println("System.getProperty('matt')=" + System.getProperty("matt"));
System.out.println("System.getProperty('MATT')=" + System.getProperty("MATT"));Results:
System.getProperty('matt')=null
System.getProperty('MATT')=null