The SwitchYard team helped put together a set of labs for Red Hat Summit this year focused on getting started with SwitchYard.  The objective of these labs was to take attendees with no experience with SwitchYard and help them become productive users of the project.  The labs set the stage by walking through an example application and explaining what you need to know followed by hands on development and configuration of common integration application scenarios.  We received some great feedback from attendees and the lab was one of the top-ranked sessions at Summit this year.  Here's what one attendee had to say*:

"I loved it. It was much better than CATS. I'm going to do these labs again and again."

With that kind of praise, you owe it to yourself to try these labs out!  The labs and lab guides are hosted in the learning repository for SwitchYard on GitHub:

https://github.com/jboss-switchyard/learning/tree/master/summit2013

* OK, I was the one that said that.