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);
}