JBoss init.d script. Extracted from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6880902/start-jboss-7-as-a-service-on-linux and modified to suit my needs. It has to be placed in /etc/init.d Change the line "USER=desarrollo" to the user that will be running your JBoss. To see the contents of java.sh and jboss.sh scripts see the StackOverflow link.

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#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          jboss
# 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: Start/Stop JBoss AS v7.1.1
### END INIT INFO
#
#source some script files in order to set and export environmental variables
#as well as add the appropriate executables to $PATH
[ -r /etc/profile.d/java.sh ] && . /etc/profile.d/java.sh
[ -r /etc/profile.d/jboss.sh ] && . /etc/profile.d/jboss.sh

USER=desarrollo

case "$1" in
    start)
        echo "Starting JBoss AS 7.1.1"
        #original:
        #sudo -u jboss sh ${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/standalone.sh

        #updated:
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --chuid $USER --exec ${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/standalone.sh
    ;;
    stop)
        echo "Stopping JBoss AS 7.1.1"
        #original:
        #sudo -u jboss sh ${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/jboss-admin.sh --connect command=:shutdown

        #updated:
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background --chuid $USER --exec ${JBOSS_HOME}/bin/jboss-cli.sh -- --connect command=:shutdown
    ;;
    *)  
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/jboss {start|stop}"
        exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0