In addition to start / stop, it would be very useful to include a debug directive that would launch a jvm in debug mode.
To implement, you could default the debug parameters to -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=0,server=y,suspend=n which would select a random port for socket debugging and start the process. Users could override the debug configuration to whatever they like in the configuration file.