diff --git a/sylvilagus/jruby/Rakefile b/sylvilagus/jruby/Rakefile
index 7397099..f6a044a 100644
--- a/sylvilagus/jruby/Rakefile
+++ b/sylvilagus/jruby/Rakefile
@@ -1,24 +1,34 @@
 require 'open-uri'
 
+RMQ_URI_BASE = 'http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-java-client'
+RMQV = '2.8.7'
+
 directory './tmp'
 
-file './tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-2.8.7.tar.gz' => ['./tmp'] do |f|
-  open('http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-java-client/v2.8.7/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-2.8.7.tar.gz') do |f|
+file "./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}.tar.gz" => ['./tmp'] do |f|
+  puts "*** Downloading tarball"
+  open("#{RMQ_URI_BASE}/v#{RMQV}/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}.tar.gz") do |f|
     open('./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin.tar.gz', 'w') do |out|
       out.write(f.read)
     end
   end
 end
 
-file './tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-2.8.7' => ['./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-2.8.7.tar.gz'] do
+file "./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}/rabbitmq-client.jar" =>
+    ["./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}.tar.gz"] do
+  puts "*** Extracting tarball"
   Dir.chdir('./tmp') do
     `tar xzvf rabbitmq-java-client-bin.tar.gz`
+    puts "*** Extracted, exit code = #{$?}"
   end
 end
 
-file './lib/java/rabbitmq-client.jar' => ['./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-2.8.7'] do
-  Dir['./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-2.8.7/*.jar'].each do |jar|
-    FileUtils.mv(jar, './lib/java', :verbose => true)
+file './lib/java/rabbitmq-client.jar' =>
+    ["./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}/rabbitmq-client.jar"] do
+  puts "*** Copying jars"
+  Dir["./tmp/rabbitmq-java-client-bin-#{RMQV}/*.jar"].each do |jar|
+    puts "*** Copying #{jar} to ./lib/java"
+    FileUtils.cp(jar, './lib/java', :verbose => true)
   end
 end
 
diff --git a/sylvilagus/jruby/lib/sylvilagus/ch02/hello_world_producer.rb b/sylvilagus/jruby/lib/sylvilagus/ch02/hello_world_producer.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b1ad81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sylvilagus/jruby/lib/sylvilagus/ch02/hello_world_producer.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+require 'sylvilagus/init'
+
+require 'rabbitmq-client.jar'
+import com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory
+
+module Sylvilagus
+  module Ch02
+    class HelloWorldProducer
+      class << self
+        def main
+          message = ARGV.first || 'snorg'
+
+          factory = ConnectionFactory.new
+          factory.setUri('amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672')
+          conn = factory.newConnection
+          channel = conn.createChannel
+          channel.exchangeDeclare('hello-exchange', 'direct', true)
+          channel.queueDeclare('hello-queue', false, false, false, nil)
+
+          channel.basicPublish('hello-exchange', 'hola', nil, message.to_java_bytes)
+          puts "Published #{message.inspect}"
+        ensure
+          conn.close
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+if $0 == __FILE__
+  Sylvilagus::Ch02::HelloWorldProducer.main
+end
diff --git a/sylvilagus/jruby/lib/sylvilagus/init.rb b/sylvilagus/jruby/lib/sylvilagus/init.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d6dbfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sylvilagus/jruby/lib/sylvilagus/init.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+require 'java'
+
+SYLVILAGUS_JAVA_LIBS = File.expand_path('../../java/', __FILE__)
+
+$CLASSPATH << SYLVILAGUS_JAVA_LIBS
+
+Dir["#{SYLVILAGUS_JAVA_LIBS}/*.jar"].each do |jar|
+  $CLASSPATH << jar
+end