posted 16 years ago
Howdy -- a Deployer could definitely modify environment variables--in fact, we like to think of env variables as "deploy-time constants", because they are typically things that might vary from deployment to deployment (tax rates, discounts, etc.)
The Container just has to make sure that this is available for a deployer to modify. There is a good chance that the bean provider and possibly the app assembler do not *know* the real value until deploy-time.
cheers,
Kathy