IBM WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit - Competitive Tools

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 Liberty and traditional WebSphere Application Server V8, V8.5.5, or V9. This specific Eclipse Marketplace solution includes migration tools for migration from competitive application servers including: Apache Tomcat Server, JBoss Application Server, Oracle Application Server, or Oracle® WebLogic Server. Learn more through a free multimedia educational module, IBM Education Assistant. This release includes application migration tools for all application servers mentioned above as well as the version to version migration tools. The application migration tools use the scanning capabilities of Rational Software Analyzer to locate application elements that should be updated in order to ensure optimal compatibility and performance with WebSphere Application Server V8 through V9, as well as unique editing features to review and appropriately change the code with the developer in complete control. They focus on migration issues when moving applications from third-party application servers to WebSphere Application Server. This includes scanning for many proprietary items such as Java APIs, Deployment descriptor config in extensions files, MBeans, annotations, etc. See the product documentation for a complete list. Rules to migrate applications from previous versions of Java SE and between vendor implementations is also included. Best practices are provided when Spring or Hibernate frameworks are found within applications to ensure successful deployment on WebSphere Application Server. The Apache Tomcat configuration migration tool helps move Tomcat config to WebSphere Liberty. This provides an integrated developer experience for migrating both configuration and applications from Apache Tomcat to WebSphere Liberty profile. Go to WASdev to download archives for all the migration tools including the command-line binary scanning tool.