Configure a new minion called salt-minion in the development environment.

Download the Java archive file from the following link; it should be something like jdk-7u71-linux-x64.gz. The md5 hash for the file should also be available from the same location: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html

Next we hosted the Java archive file on a local node, called repo, via a web server: the link for this should be something like http://repo/jdk-7u71-linux-x64.gz.

Create a new state directory called tomcat in the development environment.

Create and edit /opt/salt-cookbook/development/tomcat/java.sls to have the following entries:

java_package:
  archive:
    - extracted
    - name: /opt/
    - source...