I have added to properties that can be useful. You can set these in avaje.properties.
## set a startup delay in seconds## useful to give you time to attach a debugger debug.start.delay=4
## throws a stack trace on shutdown to show## what is triggering a shutdown.debug.shutdown.why=true
This is really to help debug any issues with running in a servlet container such as a reload of the ServletContext.
To be a little more consistent in 0.9.6 can use ebean.start.delay.