Use Tomcat deployment API

[leonardofl]

Rather than dropping WAR packages on webapp directory, it would be much better use some API to deploy services on Tomcat. In this way, it would be possible to detect failed deployments.

The following link provides hints about how to do this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3265690/how-can-i-deploy-web-app-on-tomcat-from-running-app
(the problem is that it would be easier in Java, but the deploying code is in a Chef recipe, that is in Ruby).

[leonardofl]

Maybe some hint about calling the API from Ruby here (ctrl+f curl):
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.chef.user/617