[ the article ]

I've found this article on how to get ASP.Net to read/write from the
server's registry, but it got heavily critted as being something that you
should not do...

http://www.wwwcoder.com/main/parentid/263/site/2281/68/default.aspx

[ why is that? ]

what's the problem with a server side application reading data from a server
box, and using that in it's functions?
the second major question then is, what are the alternatives?

[ a bit of background ]

I've got a messaging framework, and have exposed an incoming interface into
this via HTTP through Web Services. But I don't know how this web service
can directly invoke my application, so i'm going through the input file
layer I've created, that polls a folder for valid files...
So the configurable value i need is the path where this putting and getting
of files is going to take place, the obvious thing to do is stick it in the
server registry so that when the web service is sent data, it sticks the
relevant files into the folder, who's location it finds in the registry.

Thanks for your time.
Daniel Bass.