IBM WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit

The IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Migration Toolkit is a suite of tools and knowledge collections that enables your organization to quickly and cost-effectively migrate to WAS Liberty and WebSphere Application Server V8, V8.5.5 or V9, whether from a previous version of WebSphere Application Server or competitive application servers including Apache Tomcat Server, JBoss Application Server, Oracle Application Server, and Oracle® WebLogic Server. It features cloud migration rules for running your application on Liberty for Java on IBM Bluemix and other third-party PaaS environments such as Cloud Foundry. This Eclipse Marketplace solution combines all our Eclipse-based migration tools in one easy installation. The WebSphere Version to Version Application Migration Tool enables organizations deploying to Liberty or traditional WebSphere Application Server to more easily migrate applications from WebSphere Application Server V5.1 and later. Upgrading to a more recent version of WebSphere Application Server is of course less time-consuming than migrating from another application server, given that IBM has made significant investments in upward compatibility, configuration, and management process upgrades, as well as API preservation and consistency between versions. However, in some cases, applications must be changed in order to support or exploit new levels of industry standard specifications delivered with new versions of WebSphere Application Server. Go to WASdev to download archives for all the migration tools.