example of tomcat startup json for marathon, see https://github.com/mesosphere/marathon/blob/master/examples/Tomcat.json

tomcat-mesos-marathon.json

{
  "id": "/tomcat-test-calendar-test",
  "cmd": "rm -rf apache-tomcat-*/webapps/* && mv *.war apache-tomcat-*/webapps && cd apache-tomcat-* && cat ./conf/server.xml | sed \"s/8080/$PORT0/g\" | sed \"s/8443/$PORT1/g\" | sed \"s/8009/$PORT2/g\" | sed \"s/8005/$PORT3/g\"  > ./conf/server-mesos.xml && ./bin/catalina.sh run -config ./conf/server-mesos.xml",
  "cpus": 0.1,
  "mem": 128,
  "disk": 0,
  "instances": 3,
  "constraints": [
    [
      "hostname",
      "CLUSTER",
      "vdev14.int.com"
    ]
  ],
  "healthChecks": [
    {
      "path": "/Calendar",
      "protocol": "HTTP",
      "portIndex": 0,
      "gracePeriodSeconds": 300,
      "intervalSeconds": 60,
      "timeoutSeconds": 20,
      "maxConsecutiveFailures": 3,
      "ignoreHttp1xx": false
    }
  ],
  "labels": {
    "HAPROXY_GROUP": "external,internal"
  },
  "portDefinitions": [
    {
      "port": 10002,
      "protocol": "tcp",
      "name": "http",
      "labels": {}
    },
    {
      "port": 10003,
      "protocol": "tcp",
      "name": "ssl",
      "labels": {}
    },
    {
      "port": 10004,
      "protocol": "tcp",
      "name": "ajp",
      "labels": {}
    },
    {
      "port": 10005,
      "protocol": "tcp",
      "name": "shutdown",
      "labels": {}
    }
  ],
  "uris": [
    "http://www.pirbot.com/mirrors/apache/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.4/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.4.tar.gz",
    "https://gwt-examples.googlecode.com/files/Calendar.war"
  ]
}