OpenLiberty / OpenLiberty/liberty-tools-eclipse

Considerations for project migrations

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design enhancement
Dominant language
Java
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Forks
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2d 9h
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Description

Consider what we should do for classic projects that work in Eclipse IDE and with classic Liberty Developer Tools. e.g., do we need to help migrate them over to be Maven or Gradle-based projects to work with dev mode and tools?

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Research direction

Start by reviewing how classic projects using Eclipse IDE and classic Liberty Developer Tools differ from Maven- or Gradle-based projects. Assess what migration support would be needed for dev mode and tools; done should be a documented migration approach or decision covering these project types.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
build-system, developer-experience
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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