If you want to obtain a configuration value from a xml file in your install, you can leverage the following code:
String fileURL = Bootstrap.getServerHome(Bootstrap.CONFIGHOME) + "/conf/" + applicationName + "/Application.xml"; DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder domBuilder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = domBuilder.parse(fileURL); XPathFactory factory = XMLUtils.newXPathFactory(); factory.newXPath(); if (doc != null) { Element root = doc.getDocumentElement(); String streamTypeValue = XMLUtils.getNodeValueByTagName(root, "StreamType"); // System.out.println("Stream Type of "+applicationName+" is "+streamTypeValue); }