Get the IP dynamically

Hello all
I am making a chat application in which i use JSP and Servlet
Now I have provided the normal login page that is in swing that calls the servlet and does the authentication with the server against databse

Now i would only be giving the swing gui to the client in a jar
But the IP that i pass while compiling and making a jar of swing client is static

Now every time the server changes i need to recompile the class file
Taking the case of yahoo that must be having many servers but the client never needs to specify the IP

Is there any way that my client can get the IP without me having to recompile it everytime before giving it to the client

Thanks
Regards
Monarch

Usually no ip address is passed, instead a servername is used, so the
resolution of the address is done by the DNS.

But if you have resources that need to be read dynamically you can use
ResourceBundles.

This technique is usually applied to localize an application for
different languages, but you can use it for each information that
has to be stored outside of the class.

http://www.javaalmanac.com/egs/java.text/LocMsg.html
[ April 18, 2005: Message edited by: Jeffrey Spaulding ]

If you package and deliver your Swing app as an applet, you will have the getDocumentBase method available to you.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/applet/Applet.html#getDocumentBase()