If the application is deployed with its properties, the properties can be accessed from the database during runtime.
Obtain the properties from the class ApplicationPropertiesAccess :
// Obtain the JNDI context InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(); // access the Application-Configuration-Façade service ApplicationPropertiesAccess appCfgProps = ApplicationPropertiesAccess)ctx.lookup("ApplicationConfiguration"); java.util.Properties appProps = appCfgProps.getApplicationProperties(); if (appProps==null) { // some reaction if no application properties are available } else { // extract properties }