diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index be1482d..99e442a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@
              See e.g. https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/config/context.html
              Should be the same as the project.version but padded with zeros to six digits. -->
         <parallelDeploymentVersion>000001</parallelDeploymentVersion>
+        <!-- Property to define the final name of the build artifact.
+             This used in combination with the build-war profile to change the .war file name
+             to e.g. financer#00004.war so that the application is accessible via the /financer
+             context path once deployed in a standalone servlet container instance. This also enables multiple
+             deployments of the application in the same servlet container just with different context
+             paths. Default is the artifactId, the build-war profile defines its own default.
+             Can be changed at build time via 'mvn ... -DfinalName=financer ...-->
+        <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -125,9 +133,10 @@
             <properties>
                 <packaging.type>war</packaging.type>
                 <activeProfiles>postgres</activeProfiles>
+                <finalName>financer</finalName>
             </properties>
             <build>
-                <finalName>${project.artifactId}##${parallelDeploymentVersion}</finalName>
+                <finalName>${finalName}##${parallelDeploymentVersion}</finalName>
             </build>
             <dependencies>
                 <dependency>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/config/application-dev.properties b/src/main/resources/config/application-dev.properties
index 000f956..7bbdbf2 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/config/application-dev.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/config/application-dev.properties
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 # Hibernate
-spring.jpa.show-sql=true
\ No newline at end of file
+spring.jpa.show-sql=true
+
+financer.serverUrl=http://localhost:8089/financer-server/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/resources/config/application.properties b/src/main/resources/config/application.properties
index 38f476d..5d2c261 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/config/application.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/config/application.properties
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 
 spring.profiles.active=@activeProfiles@
 
+# This properties are just for the embedded Tomcat used while developing
+# In a standalone servlet container instance the context path is usually defined by the name
+# of the .war file. See property 'finalName' in the POM for more info.
 server.servlet.context-path=/financer-web-client
 server.port=8090
 
@@ -20,6 +23,6 @@ logging.file=financer-web-client.log
 # The date format of the client-supplied date string, used to parse the string into a proper object
 financer.dateFormat=dd.MM.yyyy
 financer.version=@project.version@
-financer.serverUrl=http://localhost:8089/financer-server/
+financer.serverUrl=http://localhost:8080/financer-server/
 
 spring.messages.basename=i18n/message
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