[Kyle Goodwin]

We are evaluating the possibility of switching over to Blue from RAD 6 instead of going to RAD 7 for WebSphere 6.1 support and I am attempting to import projects with RAD 6 structure (and custom ant build tasks) into Blue. Is there a wizard or other procedure to do this cleanly that I’m missing?

Thanks!

Kyle Goodwin
Architect
S1 Enterprise

[Greg]

Hello Kyle,

In M1 we didn’t include the project migration support since it was not ready yet. We do have a Project Migration wizard that will be available in the next version of the Blue edition. This will support migrating WSAD5.1, RAD6 projects to their equivalent MyEclipse projects.

What we are interested in for our Project Migration support is knowing the different types of projects structures that developers will want to migrate. So any input you could give us while we are in the development phase of our next release, will help us make sure that our migration support handles your project type.

[Kyle Goodwin]

Is there an accepted manual practice for doing this in the meantime other than just the normal File->Import->Existing projects method?

Our project structure is hierarchically arranged, but the hierarchy is organization only, we don’t have projects inside of other projects or anything like that. We have ant build scripts for each project as well as a master script in a build directory that reads in some machine-specific settings from properties files and then kicks off the builds in the proper order. After the ant build has been run at least once to get all the dependencies in the right places the standard methods of building in RAD are all functional, so we’d like to retain that rather than having to always use the ant script to build which is what we’d need to do in vanilla eclipse, I think.

[Kyle Goodwin]

There are two specific project builders that RAD provides that I need to fix support for in Blue:
ServiceProjectBuilder
LibCopyBuilder

Do you know if there exist alternatives to these in Blue right now?

Thanks!

[halverg]

Project types that we need to migrate….
java
web/struts
ejb 2.1 (stateless session and entity)
EARs
RAD 7 test server configurations (or a means to script the test server creation)

@support-greg wrote:

Hello Kyle,

In M1 we didn’t include the project migration support since it was not ready yet. We do have a Project Migration wizard that will be available in the next version of the Blue edition. This will support migrating WSAD5.1, RAD6 projects to their equivalent MyEclipse projects.

What we are interested in for our Project Migration support is knowing the different types of projects structures that developers will want to migrate. So any input you could give us while we are in the development phase of our next release, will help us make sure that our migration support handles your project type.

[eforus]

Will the Project Migration wizard include migration of RAD 7 projects?

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