You can use the INIConfiguration from apache to read ini type files.http://commons.apache.org/configuration/apidocs/org/apache/commons/configuration/INIConfiguration.html
import com.interwoven.serverutils100.IWConfig; // in serverutils100,jar// IWConfig.getConfig() loads a copy of iw.cfg into the cfg variable.protected static final IWConfig cfg = IWConfig.getConfig();protected String getAdminEmail() { return cfg.getString("iwsend_mail", "admin_email", AppConstants. TEAMSITE_SUPPORT_EMAIL); // retrieve mail server}