Manage Tomcat as Puppet service

Puppets service resource is really handy for managing all kind of services and notifying them in case of changes.

At first sight, one would think that this is not possible for an instance of Tomcat, but with a few more additions to your usual service declaration, this works as well (given the Tomcat resides under /opt/tomcat):

service { "tomcat" :
    provider => "init",
    ensure => running,
    start => "/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh",
    stop => "/opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh",
    status => "",
    restart => "",
    hasstatus => false,
    hasrestart => false,
  }