I would like to be able to specify some initial parameters for my ejb without putting these parameters in a deployment .xml file.

Rather I would like to put a properties file in the default/conf directory or something like that. This way I can deploy the same ear to different machines but have it use these different params.

An example is say if you need your ejb to access some files which are in different directories depending on what machine you go to.

What is the best way to do this?

thanks!
Brian