title: Purpose of the Tomcat conf folder
body: <p>This is just for my own confirmation really.</p>
  
  <p>Is the <code>&lt;CATALINA_HOME&gt;/conf</code> folder in Tomcat for configuring Tomcat itself, rather than configuring application-specific settings?</p>
  
  <p>I assume application-specific config files could be put into this folder if I wanted but it's not a good idea partly because it's the wrong place and they wouldn't appear on the classpath, thus meaning that the files wouldn't be accessible using <code>getResourceAsStream()</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Is that a good summary of what the folder is and isn't for?</p>