What is the Tomcat equivalent of IIS's web.config file?

configuration, iis, tomcat7

Solution

web.config is basically the application's config file. So in Tomcat/Java EE it's the web.xml which is part of the webapp.

Problem

I'd like to have environment-specific application settings in my Java/Tomcat web app. When I developed in .NET on IIS I had the good old web.config file to help me out with this. Does Tomcat have something equivalent to IIS's web.config file?

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