Author Archives: Eric Lefevre-Ardant

About Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Independent technical consultant.

AgileOpen – Back from AO Europe 2007

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Just came back from Hilversum, Netherlands, where AgileOpen Europe 2007 took place. See all the pictures I took on Flickr. Many other photos here.

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Maven: The plugin ‘standard maven plugin’ does not exist or no valid version could be found

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

A week ago, Maven started shouting “The plugin ‘org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-war-plugin’ does not exist or no valid version could be found”. What the…?! how can “maven-war-plugin” not exist?? Besides, it is in my repository! As it turns out, it is a reasonably … Continue reading →

Posted in java, maven | 5 Comments

Signs for OpenSpace Technology event

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Check out this site. You don’t need professional-looking signs. Hand-made ones will do just fine!

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AgileOpen Europe

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

This year, I am going to attend the AgileOpen Europe conference. It is a 2-day event based using OpenSpace Technology, on 11th and 12th of June. It will be the second OpenSpace event I attend that I don’t facilitate myself. … Continue reading →

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Annoying default SVN client in Subversive

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Subversive is one of the two Subversion plugins for Eclipse (the other is, of course, Subclipse). At each installation of Eclipse, I try to switch from one to the other. Today, I’ve installed Eclipse 3.3RC1 along with Subversive 1.1.2. When … Continue reading →

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Oracle Buys Agile

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Yep… if you want Agle, you can just go and buy it. Just kidding of course. As it happens, there actually is a company called Agile Software (imagine the false-positives when doing a Google search for Agile methodologies. I had … Continue reading →

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XP Day Paris

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I attended XP Day Paris earlier this month. A very good conference, sorely needed considering the lack of debate on such topics in France (there has been one XP Day Paris in 2006, but I hadn’t heard about it then). … Continue reading →

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How to run XFire 1.x with Spring 2.x and Maven 2.x

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

In version 1.2.5 of XFire, a module called xfire-spring is necessary to run it together with , well, Spring. The issue is that the POM file for it is designed to run with Spring 1.2.x.

Posted in java, maven, spring, webservices, xfire | 6 Comments

Google Spreadsheets Just Added Charts!

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

I just tried: it works reasonably well, though a bit slow (as one could expect). More here.

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My small contribution to propagating Agile (and how it did not go so well)

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Some time ago, I was involved (along with much more respected people) in a thread on the XP mailing list where an editor for CIO.com asked about communication tools in the context of an Agile project. I thought my answer … Continue reading →

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Agile seminar with Valtech on April, 26th

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

My employer is hosting a half-day seminar on Agile methodologies. Speakers include David Gageot and Greg Hutchings, so it’s bound to be an interesting morning. We will also hear people from Odyssey, reporting on their experience with an offshore environment. … Continue reading →

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Limitations when using DbUnit in multi-schema environment

Posted on March 22, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

DbUnit has a useful feature when using multiple schemas. After setting a property called http://www.dbunit.org/features/qualifiedTableNames, DbUnit will always refer to a fully qualified table name, using the schema in prefix, as expected. However, it has the side-effect that the schema … Continue reading →

Posted in java, test | 1 Comment

Change signature of interface methods in implementations

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Every once in a while, I learn a new fact that reminds me to stay humble with my knowledge of Java.

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Sadek is at QCon

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

My colleague Sadek Drobi is currently attending the QCon conference in London. Check out his blog, starting from March 14th.

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Maven Surefire 2.3 released with support for JUnit 4

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Eric Lefevre-Ardant

Surefire 2.3 for Maven has been released March 1st. No big announcements, just a post on the maven mailing list. Still, it is a big deal for me, as I can at last run my JUnit 4 tests with Maven.

Posted in java, maven, test | 3 Comments