Hello Tom, you are able to use the tomcat JNDI features for retrieving initial configuration information in axis.
There is a good documentation at http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/context.html#Environment%20Entries For example: define a new <Environment> -tag in your Context configuration in the tomcat server.xml file. Add a "<env-entry>" tag in your web application deployment descriptor (/WEB-INF/web.xml). Now you are able to get the configuration via // Obtain our environment naming context Context initCtx = new InitialContext(); Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env"); // Look up our data source <your-type> <your-variable> = (<your-type>) envCtx.lookup("your-config-name"); I hope, this will help Juergen >how would i pass initial config information to a webservice in axis ? >for example: "the path and filename of a logfile" ----------------------------- Juergen Kaatz Entwickler / Developer WWE e-commerce IT GmbH Eiffestrasse 462 20537 Hamburg URL: http://www.e-commerceit.de/ URL: http://www.iets.de/ (Internet Export Trading System) Tel: +49-40-2530659-32 Fax: +49-40-2530659-50 Tel. +49-40-2530659-0 (Zentrale) E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
