Why separate the config from the war file

[Peter Schober]

* John C. Pfeifer <pfeifer at umd.edu> [2015-04-08 20:00]:
> Because I want take use the same war file in the dev, qa, & prod
> environments but each environment requires differing configs.

You want to have the config /in/ the war file so that you can
distribute an /identical/ war file to environments that require
/differing/ configs?
You lost me here.
-peter