java-service cookbook

Library cookbook which provides resources for configuring a Java
service.

This library cookbook provides primitives to make it simple to deploy
Java services. Using the java_service resource configuration is
fast and simple; the best part is that it works with the native
service management of the operating system!

Basic Usage

THe whole point of this cookbook is to provide a dead simple way to
deploy Java services to an instance. The first resource installs and
configures a Java service as a system service. This has an advantage
of being portable based on the operating systme. The second resource
allows for easy management of the
Java properties configuration format.

Enabling and Starting a Java Service

java_service 'host-info' do
  artifact_version '0.2.0-SNAPSHOT'
  artifact_group_id 'com.bloomberg.inf'
end

Downloading Maven Artifacts

If you're looking to download artifacts from a Maven repository there
is the maven_artifact resource which makes it easy to do so. This
resource shells out to the maven_execute resource and utilizies
the maven dependency plugin to recursively resolve all
dependencies of the specified artifact.
ruby
maven_artifact 'spoon' do
version '0.2.0-SNAPSHOT'
group_id 'com.bloomberg.inf'
repositories 'http://clojars.org/repo'
destination '/usr/local/share/java'
end