You can be too nice

At least, that's the premise of this article in CIO magazine:

http://www.cio.com/article/450066/The_Danger_of_Being_Too_Nice_at_Work_

But when you drill in a little at the author's web site at http://www.niceguystrategies.com, you'll see that it depends on how you define "nice". Nice guys defer confrontation, and focus on the needs of others.

Although I'm sure there are many nice guys for whom that is true, I believe that there are people who are concerned for the organization first, decisive, assertive, and will still be labeled "nice".

I hope that kind of nice is still in vogue, but some of the comments on the CIO article might lead you to believe otherwise.

Maven, Woodstock and Netbeans 6.5

I spent quite a bit of time trying to "mavenize" our woodstock based project. I am sure someone will point out how to do this easier, but I was unable to find a reference. This magic works for me and I haven't been able to find something simpler.

At the high level, what I did was create a standard webapp project with the option to create a dedicated library. I used the .jars in that directory to populate my own repository on my own web server (using mvn deploy:deploy-file). I created a maven webapp project, and edited the pom.xml to reference my repo. I then copied WEB-INF files from a working woodstock project into my new maven project WEB-INF. Then created a couple of VWJSF pages in the new project, with a couple of restarts and "make clean"s. It was most surprising that the first VWJSF page fails, bu subsequent ones work.

Thanks to Robert Hook for giving me the idea to use the .jars placed in the "Dedicated library". I tried the rest of the recipe without this step but it does not work. Most of the entries are probably irrelevant because the IDE puts its own entries in the pom.xml, copying SNAPSHOT versions of some of these files to your local repo. But which ones, I do not know. If I had more time and patience, I would pull out the ones that appear to be replicated and see if it works.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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.mycompany</groupId>
 <artifactId>Try999</artifactId>
 <packaging>war</packaging>
 <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 <name>Try999 Maven Webapp</name>
 <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
 <dependencies>
   <dependency>
     <groupId>junit</groupId>
     <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
     <version>4.5</version>
     <scope>test</scope>
   </dependency>
 <dependency>
     <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
     <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
     <version>2.5</version>
     <scope>provided</scope>
   </dependency>
 <dependency>
           <groupId>com.sun.woodstock</groupId>
           <artifactId>jsfcl</artifactId>
           <version>6.5</version>
           <scope>compile</scope>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>com.sun.woodstock</groupId>
           <artifactId>appbase</artifactId>
           <version>6.5</version>
           <scope>compile</scope>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>com.sun.woodstock</groupId>
           <artifactId>dataprovider</artifactId>
           <version>6.5</version>
           <scope>compile</scope>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>com.sun.woodstock</groupId>
           <artifactId>sqlx</artifactId>
           <version>6.5</version>
           <scope>compile</scope>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>com.sun.woodstock</groupId>
           <artifactId>webui</artifactId>
           <version>6.5</version>
           <scope>compile</scope>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>com.sun.woodstock</groupId>
           <artifactId>commons-fileupload-1.0</artifactId>
           <version>6.5</version>
           <scope>compile</scope>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>com.sun.woodstock</groupId>
           <artifactId>defaulttheme</artifactId>
           <version>6.5</version>
           <scope>compile</scope>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>com.sun.woodstock</groupId>
           <artifactId>errorhandler</artifactId>
           <version>6.5</version>
           <scope>compile</scope>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>javax.faces</groupId>
           <artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
           <version>1.2_04-p01</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>javax.faces</groupId>
           <artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
           <version>1.2_04-p01</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
           <artifactId>commons-digester</artifactId>
           <version>1.5</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
           <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
           <version>1.1.2</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>taglibs</groupId>
           <artifactId>standard</artifactId>
           <version>1.1.2</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>unknown.binary</groupId>
           <artifactId>jsfcl</artifactId>
           <version>SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>unknown.binary</groupId>
           <artifactId>appbase</artifactId>
           <version>SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>unknown.binary</groupId>
           <artifactId>dataprovider</artifactId>
           <version>SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>unknown.binary</groupId>
           <artifactId>sqlx</artifactId>
           <version>SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>unknown.binary</groupId>
           <artifactId>webui-jsf</artifactId>
           <version>SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>unknown.binary</groupId>
           <artifactId>commons-fileupload-1.0</artifactId>
           <version>SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>unknown.binary</groupId>
           <artifactId>json-2</artifactId>
           <version>SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>unknown.binary</groupId>
           <artifactId>jsf-extensions-common-0.1</artifactId>
           <version>SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>unknown.binary</groupId>
           <artifactId>jsf-extensions-dynamic-faces-0.1</artifactId>
           <version>SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>unknown.binary</groupId>
           <artifactId>webui-jsf-suntheme</artifactId>
           <version>SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
<dependency>
           <groupId>unknown.binary</groupId>
           <artifactId>errorhandler</artifactId>
           <version>SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
  
 </dependencies>

 <repositories>
 <repository>
           <id>woodstock</id>
           <name>woodstock</name>
           <url>http://YOURREPO.COM/woodstock/</url>
       </repository>
 <repository>
           <id>javanet</id>
           <name>javanet</name>
           <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url>
       </repository>
 <repository>
           <id>jsf12</id>
           <name>Repository for library Library[jsf12]</name>
           <url>http://download.java.net/maven/1</url>
           <layout>legacy</layout>
       </repository>
 <repository>
           <id>unknown-jars-temp-repo</id>
           <name>A temporary repository created by NetBeans for libraries and jars it could not identify. Please replace the dependencies in this repository with correct ones and delete this repository.</name>
           <url>file:${project.basedir}/lib</url>
       </repository>
</repositories>

 <build>
   <finalName>Try999</finalName>
   <plugins>
           <plugin>
               <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
               <version>2.0.2</version>
               <configuration>
                   <source>1.5</source>
                   <target>1.5</target>
               </configuration>
           </plugin>
           <plugin>
               <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
               <version>2.0.2</version>
               <configuration>
                   <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
               </configuration>
           </plugin>
           <plugin>
               <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
               <version>2.2</version>
               <configuration>
                   <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
               </configuration>
           </plugin>
       </plugins>
 </build>
 <properties>
       <netbeans.hint.deploy.server>Tomcat60</netbeans.hint.deploy.server>
   </properties>
</project>