I'm wondering exactly how I would set this up. I have a normal java/tomcat/mysql app, and I want to deploy to EC2. I'd like to use pallet to provision the box, configure it, and deploy my war there. I'm hoping I can do this via a maven plugin?
I guess my other option is to create a lein project and deploy the war using a relative path, but I'm hoping for the maven plugin...
I can't speak to the AWS and Pallet part of your question, but assuming you have a running tomcat instance you can use the Apache Cargo project directly from maven to deploy your app:
Here is a sanitized version of our cargo configuration:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
<artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<configuration>
<container>
<containerId>tomcat6x</containerId>
<type>remote</type>
</container>
<configuration>
<type>runtime</type>
<properties>
<cargo.hostname>${tomcat.hostname}</cargo.hostname>
<cargo.servlet.port>8080</cargo.servlet.port>
<cargo.remote.username>$[tomcat.username}</cargo.remote.username>
<cargo.remote.password>${tomcat.password}</cargo.remote.password>
</properties>
</configuration>
<deployer>
<type>remote</type>
<deployables>
<deployable>
<groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
<artifactId>MyWebApp</artifactId>
<type>war</type>
<pingURL>http://my.company.com/url</pingURL>
<pingTimeout>80000</pingTimeout>
<properties>
<context>ROOT</context>
</properties>
</deployable>
</deployables>
</deployer>
</configuration>
</plugin>
You can then get this run with this command (set the relevant properties of course):
mvn -DskipTests package cargo:deploy
More information on Using Apache Cargo with Maven is here: http://cargo.codehaus.org/Maven2+Plugin+Getting+Started
