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[I posted a reply to Sam C's review and thought it might be informative to others too, so here it is at the top level... I also had to give us 5 stars.... :-) ]

First off, let me assure you and others that the samples and screen shots were not faked nor is the sample code. We had several reviewers go thru the book right up until deadline to deliever final pages to the publisher. There was a mixup in posting the final demo code and a change in libraries included in JBoss 4.0 GA. Both of those issues lead to the code being out of sync for some users who bought the book after the summer/fall of 2005. We did send the corrected code for JBoss 4.0 GA to get posted a couple of times, but for some reason it didn't seem to get online. We are sorry for that, but it wasn't because the samples don't work or we faked anything.

A little more info may help to understand what happened with this book, but commonly happens with others as well. Books are written against a moving target and sometimes by the time the book gets out, things have changed a bit. That happened in this case as well. Specifically, the code that was up on the books page to download when you downloaded the examples was done against a JBoss beta release that had the JSP Standard.jar lib file included in it. That lib gives the JSP the standard tags and some other standard features. The final JBoss build of 4.0 did not include those libraries as they are SUN's and so when you tried to run the example it complained. The new posted version of the examples includes that jar file in the examples and deploys it with the quote sample onto the server when you do that example.

Thanks for getting our book but please be assured, that things were not faked at all.

Thank you,

Sam Griffith - coauthor JBoss: A Developers Notebook