diff --git a/sylvilagus/scala/.gitignore b/sylvilagus/scala/.gitignore
index 2e713f9..acda17d 100644
--- a/sylvilagus/scala/.gitignore
+++ b/sylvilagus/scala/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,43 @@
-/.env
-/target/
-/project/target/
+# use glob syntax.
+syntax: glob
+*.ser
+*.class
+*~
+*.bak
+#*.off
+*.old
+
+.env
+
+# eclipse conf file
+.settings
+.classpath
+.project
+.manager
+.scala_dependencies
+
+# idea
+.idea
+*.iml
+
+# building
+target
+build
+null
+tmp*
+temp*
+dist
+test-output
+build.log
+
+# other scm
+.svn
+.CVS
+.hg*
+
+# switch to regexp syntax.
+#  syntax: regexp
+#  ^\.pc/
+
+#SHITTY output not in target directory
+build.log
diff --git a/sylvilagus/scala/pom.xml b/sylvilagus/scala/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4f3d6f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sylvilagus/scala/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>com.meatballhat.sylvilagus</groupId>
+  <artifactId>sylvilagus</artifactId>
+  <version>0.1.0</version>
+  <name>${project.artifactId}</name>
+  <description>Scala stuff accumulated for RabbitMQ in Action</description>
+  <inceptionYear>2012</inceptionYear>
+
+  <properties>
+    <maven.compiler.source>1.5</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>1.5</maven.compiler.target>
+    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
+    <scala.version>2.9.2</scala.version>
+  </properties>
+
+<!--
+  <repositories>
+    <repository>
+      <id>scala-tools.org</id>
+      <name>Scala-Tools Maven2 Repository</name>
+      <url>http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases</url>
+    </repository>
+  </repositories>
+
+  <pluginRepositories>
+    <pluginRepository>
+      <id>scala-tools.org</id>
+      <name>Scala-Tools Maven2 Repository</name>
+      <url>http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases</url>
+    </pluginRepository>
+  </pluginRepositories>
+-->
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
+      <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
+      <version>${scala.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.rabbitmq</groupId>
+      <artifactId>amqp-client</artifactId>
+      <version>2.8.7</version>
+    </dependency>
+
+    <!-- Test -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <version>4.8.1</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.scala-tools.testing</groupId>
+      <artifactId>specs_${scala.version}</artifactId>
+      <version>1.6.5</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.scalatest</groupId>
+      <artifactId>scalatest</artifactId>
+      <version>1.2</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <sourceDirectory>src/main/scala</sourceDirectory>
+    <testSourceDirectory>src/test/scala</testSourceDirectory>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.scala-tools</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-scala-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.15.0</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>compile</goal>
+              <goal>testCompile</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <args>
+                <arg>-make:transitive</arg>
+                <arg>-dependencyfile</arg>
+                <arg>${project.build.directory}/.scala_dependencies</arg>
+              </args>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+        <configuration>
+          <launchers>
+            <launcher>
+              <id>sylvilagus-ch02-hello-world-producer</id>
+              <mainClass>com.meatballhat.sylvilagus.ch02.HelloWorldProducer</mainClass>
+            </launcher>
+          </launchers>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.6</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <useFile>false</useFile>
+          <disableXmlReport>true</disableXmlReport>
+          <!-- If you have classpath issue like NoDefClassError,... -->
+          <!-- useManifestOnlyJar>false</useManifestOnlyJar -->
+          <includes>
+            <include>**/*Test.*</include>
+            <include>**/*Suite.*</include>
+          </includes>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>