This section provides information that will enable users of IBM® WebSphere® Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 5.2 move up to the full power and versatility of IBM WebSphere Application Server. It provides the migration path to allow an enterprise to reuse much of its existing toolkit application code base and still take advantage of the WebSphere J2EE environment.
IBM recognizes that an enterprise cannot always upgrade its application software all at once. Because the enterprise can decide how much or how little toolkit functionality to retain, WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1 enables the enterprise to upgrade to a full J2EE environment incrementally. With WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1, the enterprise can bypass the toolkit functionality and access J2EE components directly upon requests.
WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1 provides a migration tool that helps you to migrate your applications. The migration tool can migrate WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 5.2 definitions to WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1 definitions and migrate WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 5.2 class packages and APIs to the corresponding WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1 class packages and APIs.
This section describes the concepts and tasks that are related to migrating your applications to WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1 with the migration tool.