where to put a customised second web.xml

Question

I want to create this simple schema:

I am writing a maven application that gets deployed as a war to the server. I want to have the same web.xml for my localmachine and the server and add individual context params according to the machine.

Right now I do this by putting them in Tomcat's global web.xml but this gets propagated in all applications running (which is working but it's obviously not the right way to do).

Can I add web.xml parameters for a specific webapplication ? some setting in context.xml somewhere?

Answer 1

As an exercise (I hadn't the chance to use this in production yet) I tried to pack a different (transformed) web.xml in the final WAR based on different profiles.

You can check my own question and its answer here.