Moving config stuff from myapp.conf in web.xml

Question

Hi guys,
I made a web application myapp, which parse and read its config stuff from a text file called myapp.conf (a httpd.conf like file). I want to move all this config stuff in web.xml of my application (webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/web.xml).
Can I do this?
How can I read a tag with it's name, value, etc from web.xml?
I put some env-entry tags in my web.xml but I don't know how to access them. Can you point me to some examples of doiing this?
Thanks,
bufny

Answer 1

Hi,
I can help u for the tomcat4.0 servlet engine:
1)open the server.xml file availavle in the tomcat_home\
config\ In that u add the context and can add the additional resource which can be later accessed from the jndi.Please refer the default file.
2)then create the directory specified in the
<context docbase="u r directory path" >
resource can be added here
</context>
3) within that directory create the following structure:
ur_dir\web-inf
ur_dir\ web-inf\web.xml
within the web-inf u specify something like this(Please refer default file)
<res-ref-name>jdbc/demo</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
4)Then from ur jsp application within the same context
call the usage as
Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
Context envCtx = (Context)initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
DataSource d=(DataSource)envCtx.lookup("jdbc/demo");
5)Similarly other objects can be accesses but need to be defined in the web.xml file (deploymentdescriptor)
Hope u get some idea
regards vicky