diff --git a/assembly/src/sample-conf/default.xml b/assembly/src/sample-conf/default.xml
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--- a/assembly/src/sample-conf/default.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- START SNIPPET: sample -->
-
-<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC  "-//ACTIVEMQ//DTD//EN" "http://activemq.org/dtd/activemq.dtd">
-<beans>
-
-  <!-- A default example of the deployment descriptor -->
-
-  <broker>
-    <connector>
-      <tcpServerTransport uri="tcp://localhost:61616" backlog="1000" useAsyncSend="true" maxOutstandingMessages="50"/>
-    </connector>
-    
-    <persistence>
-      <!-- you can point this to a different datasource -->
-      <jdbcPersistence dataSourceRef="derby-ds"/>
-    </persistence>
-  </broker>
-
-  <!-- ==================================================================== -->
-  <!-- JDBC DataSource Configurations -->
-  <!-- ==================================================================== -->
-  <!-- The Derby Datasource that will be used by the Broker -->
-  <bean id="derby-ds" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
-    <property name="driverClassName">
-      <value>org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver</value>
-    </property>
-    <property name="url">
-      <!-- Use a URL like 'jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:9001' if you want to connect to a remote hsqldb -->
-      <value>jdbc:derby:target/data/derbydb;create=true</value>
-    </property>
-    <property name="username">
-      <value></value>
-    </property>
-    <property name="password">
-      <value></value>
-    </property>
-    <property name="poolPreparedStatements">
-      <value>true</value>
-    </property>
-  </bean>
-
-</beans>
-
-<!-- END SNIPPET: sample -->
diff --git a/assembly/src/sample-conf/derby-jdbc-example.xml b/assembly/src/sample-conf/derby-jdbc-example.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC  "-//ACTIVEMQ//DTD//EN" "http://activemq.org/dtd/activemq.dtd">
-<beans>
-
-  <!-- ==================================================================== -->
-  <!-- ActiveMQ Broker Configuration -->
-  <!-- ==================================================================== -->
-  <broker>
-    <connector>
-      <serverTransport uri="vm://localhost"/>
-    </connector>
-    <connector>
-      <tcpServerTransport uri="tcp://localhost:61616" backlog="1000" useAsyncSend="true" maxOutstandingMessages="50"/>
-    </connector>
-
-    <persistence>
-      <!-- you can point this to a different datasource -->
-      <jdbcPersistence dataSourceRef="derby-ds"/>
-    </persistence>
-  </broker>
-
-  <!-- ==================================================================== -->
-  <!-- JDBC DataSource Configurations -->
-  <!-- ==================================================================== -->
-  <!-- The Derby Datasource that will be used by the Broker -->
-  <bean id="derby-ds" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
-    <property name="driverClassName">
-      <value>org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver</value>
-    </property>
-    <property name="url">
-      <!-- Use a URL like 'jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:9001' if you want to connect to a remote hsqldb -->
-      <value>jdbc:derby:target/data/derbydb;create=true</value>
-    </property>
-    <property name="username">
-      <value></value>
-    </property>
-    <property name="password">
-      <value></value>
-    </property>
-    <property name="poolPreparedStatements">
-      <value>true</value>
-    </property>
-  </bean>
-
-</beans>
diff --git a/assembly/src/sample-conf/derbynet-jdbc-example.xml b/assembly/src/sample-conf/derbynet-jdbc-example.xml
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--- a/assembly/src/sample-conf/derbynet-jdbc-example.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC  "-//ACTIVEMQ//DTD//EN" "http://activemq.org/dtd/activemq.dtd">
-<beans>
-
-  <!-- ==================================================================== -->
-  <!-- ActiveMQ Broker Configuration -->
-  <!-- ==================================================================== -->
-  <broker>
-    <connector>
-      <serverTransport uri="vm://localhost"/>
-    </connector>
-    <connector>
-      <tcpServerTransport uri="tcp://localhost:61616" backlog="1000" useAsyncSend="true" maxOutstandingMessages="50"/>
-    </connector>
-
-    <persistence>
-      <!-- you can point this to a different datasource -->
-      <jdbcPersistence dataSourceRef="derby-ds"/>
-    </persistence>
-  </broker>
-
-  <!-- ==================================================================== -->
-  <!-- JDBC DataSource Configurations -->
-  <!-- ==================================================================== -->
-  <!-- The HSQL Datasource that will be used by the Broker -->
-  <bean id="derby-ds" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
-    <property name="driverClassName">
-      <value>com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver</value>
-    </property>
-    <property name="url">
-      <!-- Use a URL like 'jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:9001' if you want to connect to a remote hsqldb -->
-      <value>jdbc:derby:net://localhost/target/data/derbydb;create=true</value>
-    </property>
-    <property name="username">
-      <value>na</value>
-    </property>
-    <property name="password">
-      <value>na</value>
-    </property>
-    <property name="poolPreparedStatements">
-      <value>true</value>
-    </property>    
-  </bean>
-
-</beans>
diff --git a/assembly/src/sample-conf/jgroups/default.xml b/assembly/src/sample-conf/jgroups/default.xml
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--- a/assembly/src/sample-conf/jgroups/default.xml
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-<!-- ************ JGroups Protocol Stack Configuration ************** -->
-<!-- generated by XmlConfigurator on Mon Apr 26 11:15:41 PDT 2004 -->
-<!-- input file: default.old.xml -->
-
-<config>
-  <UDP mcast_send_buf_size="32000" mcast_port="45566" ucast_recv_buf_size="64000" mcast_addr="228.8.8.8"
-    loopback="true" mcast_recv_buf_size="64000" max_bundle_size="60000" max_bundle_timeout="30"
-    use_incoming_packet_handler="false" use_outgoing_packet_handler="false" ucast_send_buf_size="32000"
-    ip_ttl="32" enable_bundling="false"/>
-  <PING timeout="2000" num_initial_members="3"/>
-  <MERGE2 max_interval="10000" min_interval="5000"/>
-  <FD timeout="2000" max_tries="3" shun="true"/>
-  <VERIFY_SUSPECT timeout="1500"/>
-  <pbcast.NAKACK max_xmit_size="8192" use_mcast_xmit="false" gc_lag="50" retransmit_timeout="600,1200,2400,4800"/>
-  <UNICAST timeout="1200,2400,3600"/>
-
-  <!--
-  - desired_avg_gossip: periodically sends STABLE messages around. 0 disables this
-  - max_bytes: max number of bytes received from anyone until a STABLE message is sent. Use either this or
-               desired_avg_gossip, but not both ! 0 disables it.
-  - stability_delay: range (number of milliseconds) that we wait until sending a STABILITY message.
-    This prevents STABILITY multicast storms. If max_bytes is used, this should be set to a low value (> 0 though !).
-  -->
-  <pbcast.STABLE stability_delay="1000" desired_avg_gossip="20000" max_bytes="0"/>
-  <FRAG frag_size="8192" down_thread="false" up_thread="false"/>
-  <pbcast.GMS print_local_addr="true" join_timeout="3000" join_retry_timeout="2000" shun="true"/>
-</config>
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diff --git a/assembly/src/sample-conf/peer.xml b/assembly/src/sample-conf/peer.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC  "-//ACTIVEMQ//DTD//EN" "http://activemq.org/dtd/activemq.dtd">
-<beans>
-
-  <!--
-    || A simple peer based ActiveMQ Message Broker configuration
-    || where brokers are typically embedded in JMS clients and the
-    || brokers all auto-discover each other via Zeroconf
-    || (which requires multicast to be enabled)
-    ||
-    || If your network does not support multicast then its advisable
-    || to replace this mechansim with hard coded host names
-    -->
-
-  <broker>
-    <connector>
-      <tcpServerTransport uri="tcp://localhost:0"/>
-    </connector>
-
-    <discoveryAgent>
-      <zeroconfDiscovery type="_activemq.broker.development."/>
-    </discoveryAgent>
-
-    <discoveryNetworkConnector/>
-
-    <persistence>
-      <vmPersistence/>
-    </persistence>
-  </broker>
-</beans>
diff --git a/assembly/src/sample-conf/vm-example.xml b/assembly/src/sample-conf/vm-example.xml
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--- a/assembly/src/sample-conf/vm-example.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC  "-//ACTIVEMQ//DTD//EN" "http://activemq.org/dtd/activemq.dtd">
-<beans>
-
-  <!-- using VM persistence (i.e. no long term persistence) -->
-  <broker>
-    <connector>
-      <serverTransport uri="vm://localhost"/>
-    </connector>
-
-
-    <persistence>
-      <vmPersistence/>
-    </persistence>
-  </broker>
-
-</beans>