More WO servlet questions

With standard WO deployment (WO Monitor) every WO app has its own JVM  
- of course not so when deploying the apps as servlets in Tomcat.  
What is the common way to provide configuration info to the WO app  
when deploying as Servlets? I guess the the config info should be  
written into the web.xml file, right? Then: How do I access this  
info? And is there any way for the app to know whether it is run in  
WO Monitor or in a servlet container? -> The goal would be to write a  
"hybird" app that works fine in both deployment environments.

Thanks!

-Will