Deploying an existing war

You can use the maven plugin to deploy a war file that was built by some other means such as an ANT screen. You simply create a simple maven project that deploys a WAR file stored in S3.

First create a new directory.

Second, in that directory create a pom.xml (with the appropriate edits):

<project>
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>net.chrisrichardson</groupId>
    <artifactId>standalone-deployment</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>pia-repository</id>
            <url>http://www.pojosinaction.com/repository</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

    <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
            <id>pia-repository</id>
            <url>http://www.pojosinaction.com/repository</url>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>true</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
    </pluginRepositories>


    <properties>
        <aws.properties>PATH_TO_YOUR_AWS_PROPERTIES</aws.properties>
        <s3.war>s3://YOURBUCKET/YOUR_WAR.war</s3.war>
    </properties>


     <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>net.chrisrichardson</groupId>
                <artifactId>cloudtools-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <awsPropertiesFile>${aws.properties}</awsPropertiesFile>
                    <schemaName>YOUR_SCHEMA</schemaName>
                    <schemaUsers>
                        <param>YOUR_DB_USER:YOUR_DB_PASSWORD</param>
                    </schemaUsers>
                    <warDirectory>${s3.war}</warDirectory>
                    <warName>mywar</warName>
                    <numberOfMySqlSlaves>0</numberOfMySqlSlaves>
                    <numberOfTomcats>1</numberOfTomcats>
                    <topology>SingleInstanceTopology</topology>
                    <catalinaOptsBuilder>
                        <![CDATA[
                        {builder, databasePrivateDnsName, slaves -> 
                            builder.arg("-server") 
                            builder.arg("-Xmx1000m") 
                            builder.arg("-Xms1000m") 
                            builder.prop("jdbc.db.server", databasePrivateDnsName)
                        } 
                      ]]>
                    </catalinaOptsBuilder>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

Third, upload your war file to S3

You should now be able run "mvn cloudtools:deploy" to deploy your application on EC2.