[chef] Deploying .war files?

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Hi everyone,
I'm fairly new to Chef. I downloaded and deployed the tomcat cookbook to a
node, and now I'm trying to add a recipe? or another cookbook, I'm not sure
really...to deploy our web app that should run on Tomcat.

I basically want the node to stop tomcat, delete everything in the webapps
directory, and scp a file to the right spot..then start tomcat.

I looked briefly at the deploy resource, but that's from a version control
system...we don't keep builds in version control, only the source..the binary
builds are on a server, so I don't think that's what I want.

If anyone can point me in the right direction to get this going, that would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

-Matt