[EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I add "personal" data into WEB-INF/web.xml?

Hi,   Is it possible to add more info into WEB-INF/web.xml?What I need to do is storing an array of directories in the application memory so I can retrieve it by various web pages without reading them again and again from a file. Is it possible to do it? How can it be retrieved? (I write in Java,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Application variables

Dear all, I'd like to have Apache have application variables, to be retrieved later from within JSP pages, so I don't need to hard code them. For instance, I want it to keep a list of directories it need to scan for a certain action. How is it possible? How can I retrieve them later in Java? I loo