start/control-script is not suitable for professional environments

The start-scripts "activemq" and "activemq-admin" do not seem to be ready for production use.

Reasons:

• Server does not run in background
  => this can be done by redirecting output to a file and run in background
  => in my opinion this should be implemented directly in java
  => the console log should be written by log4j to <install-root>/data/console.log
• The process should be started on a non-root user
  => use 'su -c "$COMMAND" - $RUN_AS_USER'
  => this should be defined in /etc/activemq.conf
• The script should support a "reload" feature to reload the configurartion
  (if activemq supports reloading)
• The script should support a "status" option
  => this should show a quick overview about the state of activemq
  => this should return a value != 0 if the service is not working
  (this is important for cluster integration)

Does anybody already working on these items?
Do you have suggestions for a implementation?