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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I guess I should be flattered by this training class which seems to be nothing more than a section by section regurgitation of JBoss: A Developer's Notebook. I used my own experience teaching JBoss training classes to put together as lean of an introduction to using JBoss as I could. So, I can definitely see how it might be used as the basis of a training class. I'm just rather surprised that someone would do that.

When I mentioned it to Sam, his first question is whether or not they have the right to do that. It does seem a bit sketchy, but I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be able to teach a class around our book. I pointed out to Sam that they actually are selling copies of the book for us, so in a roundabout way we are even getting compensated for it.

Of course, skeptical Sam wondered if they were actually selling any seats. That's a good question. Why would you go to a third-party JBoss class when you can get training straight from the source? Hmmm...