Get the server port number from tomcat without a request

Question

Is there any Tomcat API or configuration available which can tell an application (probably on startup), what port its running on without a request?

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Answer 1

These types of servers are designed to be able to listen on (almost) arbitrary ports and to hide these details from the contained applications which normally do not need to know.

The only way is to read the configuration files yourself and have access to the command line arguments that started the server where the configuration files may have been overridden. You have to know a lot about the system you are running on for this to work. There is no way of doing it portably.

Even if there were, there are cases in which it simply does not matter like being behind a NAT, certain firewalls, etc.