a general default shell script to start a play app

gistfile1.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          play app
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: play web application
# Description: Controls web application written with Play! framework 
### END INIT INFO

NAME=myplayapp
DESC='My Play App'
PROJ_HOME=/home/projects/myplayapp

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk/1.6.0_41/
PLAY_HOME=/opt/play-1.1.1
PLAY_USER=www-data


case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC"
        su -s /bin/sh -c 'exec "$0" "$@" > /dev/null' $PLAY_USER -- $PLAY_HOME/play start $PROJ_HOME
        echo "."
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC"
        su -s /bin/sh -c 'exec "$0" "$@" > /dev/null' $PLAY_USER -- $PLAY_HOME/play stop $PROJ_HOME
        echo "."
        ;;
  restart)
        echo -n "Restarting $DESC"
        su -s /bin/sh -c 'exec "$0" "$@" > /dev/null' $PLAY_USER -- $PLAY_HOME/play restart $PROJ_HOME
        echo "."
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: service myplayapp {start|stop|restart}"
        exit 1
esac

exit 0