[chef] Multiple application instances on a node

[Ian Buchanan < >]

I've tried to Google and search this mailing list but I might be missing the
right term for what I'm trying to accomplish.

I want to install and configure multiple web applications on the same node.
Although I'm writing a cookbook that does more, the standard apache2 cookbook
is a sufficient example. I can run the "web_app" definition many times to get 
a
conf file for each web app. However, I can't work out how to store attributes
for each application. Is there a pattern for when there are multiple of the
same "thing" on a node?