Use our Java

[jakedavis]

@miah wrote a kickass cookbook for Java that we should definitely use.

[jeffbyrnes]

@jakedavis we use the community Java cookbook (aka https://github.com/socrata-cookbooks/java) at EverTrue; I'm curious what improvements SimpleFinance/java offers (we're always on the hunt for stronger cookbooks).

[miah]

The java cookbook in question basically implements RVM for java.

[jeffbyrnes]

@miah damn. Ok, that is some hot shit. Nicely done!

[miah]

I wrote it in haste. It definitely needs attention and cleanup. But we're working on cleaning up our code lately (as you can see), so we'll get to it soon I'm sure.

[solarce]

This was merged in in the following commits

• https://github.com/SimpleFinance/chef-zookeeper/commit/dccd33cd2c276be6384e413eee3421ee4a2bf66b#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
• https://github.com/SimpleFinance/chef-zookeeper/commit/2952e5ca842300ae66d4827051f8060969b61c29#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
• https://github.com/SimpleFinance/chef-zookeeper/commit/cbf79abeda58e0ddf52294b4a4cc7cb2c7c0349a#diff-d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

[jeffbyrnes]

I'm going to close this, as 76910ae (released in v2.4.2) makes it possible to specify, in a wrapper cookbook, that node[:zookeeper][:use_java_cookbook] = false and use your own Java cookbook instead.

I think this is a great pattern to follow for this cookbook, as it’s become a really strong community cookbook for installing Zookeeper, and sticking to using other community cookbooks by default is a Good Thing™.

[jakedavis]

Excellent :)