Referencing Environment Variables in web.xml

Question

I\'m pre-packaging a JSP web-app that relies on some file path settings found within web.xml. These settings are unknown at packaging time, because they reference a path the

Answer 1

Environment variables can be accessed in xml files like this:

${env.ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_NAME}

Obviously there may be issues with user account settings and access issues, but i have tried with system variables and it works!