@monkeyden: thanks for your reply. i found the corresponding entry in the documentation.

unfortunately, it doesn't work actually. i'm using the seam.properties settings configuration.

seam.properties:

applicationSettings.profilesPath /profiles

@Name("applicationSettings")
@Install(precedence = BUILT_IN)
@Intercept(NEVER)
@Scope(ScopeType.APPLICATION)
public class ApplicationSettings {
 private String profilesPath;

 public String getProfilesPath() {
 return profilesPath;
 }

 public void setProfilesPath(String profilesPath) {
 this.profilesPath = profilesPath;
 }

 public static ApplicationSettings instance() {
 return (ApplicationSettings) Component
 .getInstance(ApplicationSettings.class);
 }
}

ApplicationSettings.instance().getProfilesPath()