config files for a webapplication - load once and store where?

Question

I have a bunch of properties (configurations) that can change per environment. However these values do not change once the web application is deployed.So consider that there

Answer 1

Put your configuration classes/properties in a jar file, and put that jar file in WEB-INF/lib. Then you can access them through the normal classpath resource facilities whereever you need to in your web application.