I didn’t use Cargo because I have some big plans for my deployment plugin, and it didn’t look like I’d be able to cleanly leverage much of Cargo. Might be worth another look though.

maybe you wish to check (and use) this project http://cargo.codehaus.org/Quick+start , since it seems to handle many containers in a standard way.

here’s my bash script :

#!/bin/bash
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat stop
#just in case of pending process
sudo killall -u tomcat java
cd $MY_SVN_WORKING_COPY
svn update
grails prod war
sudo rm -R /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/$WEBAPP_NAME/
#optional
sudo rm -R /usr/local/tomcat/logs/*
sudo cp /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/$WEBAPP_NAME.war $ARCHIVE_DIR/webapps/$WEBAPP_NAME.war.old
sudo cp ./$WEBAPP_NAME-$(cat application.properties | grep “app.version” | awk ‘{split($0,a,”=”); split(a[2],b,”\r”); print b[1]}’).war /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/$WEBAPP_NAME.war
sudo chown tomcat:tomcat /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/$WEBAPP_NAME.war
sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat start
#End of script

Regards