This subdirectory contains two important and useful files:
The first is server.xml. This file covers several issues, in most of which you will not have to interfere. For syntax, see the documentation on the default server we ran earlier (in http:/.../doc/serverxml.html).
Each file of the form apps-<somename>.xml is also parsed — this is enabled by the directive:
<ContextXmlReader config="conf/apps.xml" />
which causes both conf/apps.xml and conf/apps-*.xml to be read and contexts to be loaded from them (see the example servlet later for how contexts are used).