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Book:		JBoss: A Developer's Notebook
Subject:		good subject - broken example code
Date:		2006-04-25 13:19:17
From:		Sam C

Rating: I like the format and the subject, but the some of the examples don't work, specifically the quotes example. Examples not working is one of my pet peeves since they are an essential part of the learning experience, so I'm going to ding the book heavily for this error. The book just shows that the examples work and show the hypothetical results that can never materialize from the source code they provide. Apart from the examples not working , and them showing fake screens of the code working, the writing sytle is good and easy to follow.

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RE: good subject - broken example code, August 23 2006

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Sam C,

I verified it again today. Both quote and quote_production compile, deploy and are accessable if you follow the instructions in the book.

The only thing I can think of you maybe having trouble with is the build.xml file. You need to make sure the Ant variable for the jboss.dir is correct.

Additionally, Norman has verified it and we've had other reviewers verify it independently as well. If you still are having issues, you can submit an error report with you build.xml file modifications in it and what your JDK environment variables are and we'll try to help you figure out what is wrong.

Finally, none of the screenshots or code is fake. It's worked for many others and I'm not sure what is wrong, but we'll try to help if you submit an error report.

You can submit an error report for our book here:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jbossadn/errata/

Thanks,

Sam