IBM WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit, Version 7.1

Manual migration

The migration tool cannot perform all the tasks that are involved in migrating from IBM® WebSphere® Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 5.2 to IBM WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1. You must perform the migration of the following items manually:
  • Some new features in WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1, such as Web 2.0, Rich Client, and so on. The base functionality of the migration tool only migrates the existing applications to WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1 and checks that they can run in WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1. You must redesign your applications and implement them manually.
  • The existing services that are out of the scope of WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1. The services that are in the WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 5.2 application system are not included in the migration tool; therefore, you migrate them manually.
  • The server-side event mechanism of WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1 has changed. You can define event related migration rules in WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1, but for complicated scenarios that migration rules cannot handle, you must migrate them manually.
  • The communication service access uses the JCA connector in WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1. You must modify it manually.
  • The WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 5.2 invoker. The invoker is a hard coded EJB invocation framework. WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1 provides a common invocation framework for POJO, EJB, Web services, and JMS. These two frameworks are entirely different. The API usage and configuration are also entirely different. The EJB invocation information that is defined in the resource bundle file can be mapped to the EJB invoker definition in the file invoker.xml. The WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1 invoker is decoupled with WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit context and formatter. The usage of WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1 invoker is simple and flexible compared with the usage of the WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 5.2 invoker. For detailed information on the WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.1, see the Invoker topic.


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