title: Deploying from Nexus to Tomcat (via Jenkins/Hudson)
body: <p>I am looking to create a three-step process for our internal development, and I am having some issues with the third step.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Step 1:</strong>
  A developer will use Jenkins to build/deploy a snapshot release of a project to the Nexus snapshot repository.  As a post build step, this project will also deploy the built WAR to Tomcat (Using the DeployArtifact plugin).</p>
  
  <p><strong>Step 2:</strong>
  Using the <a href="https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Promoted+Builds+Plugin" rel="nofollow">Jenkins promoted builds plugin</a>, a developer can nominate a build to be ready for QA.  This build is then tagged with an release candidate number, and deployed to the Nexus release repository.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Step 3:</strong>
  I would like QA to be able to log into Jenkins and be able to deploy the newly created release candidate to Tomcat (a different tomcat instance for QA).  </p>
  
  <p>I know I can do all of this via a manual build process with shell scripting, but I was really hoping that there would be a Jenkins plugin to allow QA to find a list of the release candidate plugins and deploy a specific one to Tomcat.</p>