[chef] chef recipe issue with multiple parameters

[Manoj < >]

>> Hey,
>> 
>> So here is what i am trying to do .
>> 
>> I have 4 services lets say war files i am trying to deploy to jboss .
>> 
>> Since the deploymnet to jboss is straight fwd the only parameters which 
>> will change for all these war file deployments is the war file name and 
>> one more parameter.
>> 
>> I am trying to write a generic recipe which will run and deploy a 
>> particular service ,the service name i want to pass in as a parameter  
>> also another env-name as parameter.
>> 
>> 
>> i know i can pass parameters by using env. variable but i am thinking to 
>> pick some kind of attributes from some where,
>> 
>> I am not sure how to do it other than passing a json from the chef-client 
>> -j which is again ugly and not possible 
>> 
>> Maybe you have done this in past and have the solution already :0) 
>> 
>> Thanks for your help
>> 
>> -Manoj