[[chef-dev]] how to make a wait time til the operation completes like Thread sleep

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All

  I am having one scenario in the tomcat deployment . 

  Putting the 3 wars file in the web apps  and start the tomcat . this will
extract the folder.
  After that i need to stop the service and then reconfigure the generated
application folder config file and then start it again

  The issue extracting war file to folder is taking some much time so that 
stop
service stopped the tomcat and rest of war files couldn't able to extract so
reconfiguration action could not able to to because war extraction would not
been done fully.

Is there any thing i can wait for some time and then do rest of operations.

or Any operation wait till it completes? (this wont help)