Migration Overview

IBM® WebSphere® Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 8.0 provides the following functions to help you migrate your applications from WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 5.2 to WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 8.0:

Definition transformation
This feature transforms the definition files from WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 5.2 to WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 8.0. All the existing definition files are converted or migrated to the corresponding WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 8.0. For example, the dse.ini definition file is converted to the btt.xml file.
Java and JSP code migration
The migration tool scans the code of your applications and automatically replaces the code of WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.0, or earlier, with WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 8.0 code by renaming packages and some classes and methods. This reduces the workload for the application program migration.
Default migration rules provided
WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 8.0 provides default migration rules for migration from WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 5.2 to WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 8.0. You can use the default rules or extend the default rules to meet additional migration requirements.
Customer extension support
The migration tool is rule-based, which means that the migration tasks that are carried out are defined as rules. You can add new rules to meet your application migration requirements.
Exclusions
UI features here refer to the and Swing-based presentation logic. In WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 8.0, Swing-based Java client is wholly compatible with WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 5.2; therefore, no migration is required.
Constraints
To reduce the complexity of the migration process, the number of tasks that are performed by the migration tool are limited by the rules that are defined in the tool. Migration tasks that are not defined in the migration tool as rules are not performed.