We actually had a debate internally on the applicability of this sample
code as a quickstart - for exactly the reasons that Sande lists.  

I originally wrote the code in my own testing project, but after several
customer requests, we thought to do it in quickstart format.

I suspect that this might be a continuing theme.  Use the quickstart
format for customer interactions, even if the specific topic may not
warrant inclusion on the main site.

Certainly, let me know how I can improve the instructions. 

On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 15:25 -0500, Sande Gilda wrote:

Hi everyone,

Doug submitted a quickstart that demonstrates IBM's WebSphere MQ 
messaging and Spring JMS. it's a very nice example, but I 'm don't think 
it is a good candidate for a quickstart.

While we ship other quickstarts that are dependent on 3rd party 
software, currently we only include those where the 3rd party software 
is freely downloadable and fairly simple to configure. My concern with 
this quickstart is that even though you can get an evaluation copy for 
free, it is short term and doesn't allow us to test this quickstart over 
numerous releases. Also, WebSphere MQ requires setup and configuration 
and I really don't think we want to support this in a quickstart. I also 
don't know how we could set up automated tests for it. I would prefer to 
see this written up on confluence, docspace, or as a support document, 
although I think it needs more detailed instructions.

You can view the pull here: 
https://github.com/jboss-jdf/jboss-as-quickstart/pull/356

What does everyone else think about this?

Thanks,
Sande