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

I am not entirely sure if you can access the Tomcat port from code in the environment configuration you need. Did you consider actually having the full URL to the web service passed as a configuration param/setting (probably in a .properties file) to the app?

This way you wouldn't have to hardcode the port and de-couple both your apps so that you could technically have the web service on an external tomcat but still access it by just changing the property, avoiding code re-build.