Chapter 2. Getting started
2.1. Running the Maven Plugin
The Maven plugin is run by including a reference to the plugin inside your application’s pom.xml
file. When the application is built, the Maven plugin is run and generates the reports for analysis.
Prerequisites
Java Development Kit (JDK) installed.
MTR supports the following JDKs:
- OpenJDK 11
- Oracle JDK 11
- 8 GB RAM
-
macOS installation: the value of
maxproc
must be2048
or greater. -
The Maven
settings.xml
file configured to direct Maven to use the JBoss EAP Maven repository. To run the Maven plugin on OpenJDK 17 or Oracle JDK17, you first need to set MAVEN_OPTS on the command line by running the following command:
export MAVEN_OPTS="--add-modules=java.se --add-opens java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens java.base/java.util=ALL-UNNAMED --add-opens java.base/java.util.stream=ALL-UNNAMED"
Procedure
Add the following
<plugin>
to your application’spom.xml
file:[...] <plugin> <groupId>org.jboss.windup.plugin</groupId> <artifactId>mtr-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.1.1.GA-redhat-00001</version> <executions> <execution> <id>run-windup</id> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>windup</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> <configuration> <target>eap:7</target> 1 </configuration> </plugin> [...]
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- Specify a migration target. At least one migration target must be supplied within the configuration.
Add
--add-modules=java.se
to theMAVEN_OPTS
environment variable.export MAVEN_OPTS=--add-modules=java.se
Build the project:
$ mvn clean install
You can access the generated reports.
2.2. Running the Maven Plugin with multiple modules
To use the Maven plugin in a project with multiple modules, place the configuration inside the parent’s pom.xml
. During execution the Maven plugin will generate a single report that contains the analysis for the parent and any child modules.
It is strongly recommended to set inherited
to false in multi-module projects; otherwise, the Maven plugin will run when each child is compiled, resulting in multiple executions of the Maven plugin against the child modules. Setting inherited
to false results in each project being analyzed a single time and drastically decreased run times.
To run the Maven plugin in a project with multiple modules perform the following steps.
Include the following plugin inside the parent project’s
pom.xml
. The following is a samplepom.xml
for a parent module.<plugin> <groupId>org.jboss.windup.plugin</groupId> <artifactId>mtr-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.1.1.GA-redhat-00001</version> <inherited>false</inherited> <executions> <execution> <id>run-windup</id> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>windup</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> <configuration> <input>${project.basedir}</input> <target>eap:7</target> 1 <windupHome>>/PATH/TO/CLI/<</windupHome> </configuration> </plugin>
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- Specify a migration target. At least one migration target must be supplied within the configuration.
This
pom.xml
file differs from the default in the following attributes:-
inherited
: Defined at the plugin level, this attribute indicates whether or not this configuration should be used in child modules. Set tofalse
for performance improvements. -
input
: Specifies the path to the directory containing the projects to be analyzed. This attribute defaults to{project.basedir}/src/main
, and should be defined if the parent project does not have source code to analyze. windupHome
: A path to an extracted copy of the MTR CLI. This attribute is optional, but is recommended as a performance improvement.The above example demonstrates a set of recommended arguments.
Build the parent project. During the build process the Maven plugin runs against all children in the project without further configuration.
$ mvn clean install
- Once completed, you can access the generated reports. This report contains the analysis for the parent and all children.
2.3. Accessing the report
When you run Migration Toolkit for Runtimes, the report is generated in the OUTPUT_REPORT_DIRECTORY
that you specify using the outputDirectory
argument in the pom.xml
. Upon completion of the build, you will see the following message in the build log.
Windup report created: <OUTPUT_REPORT_DIRECTORY>/index.html
The output directory contains the following files and subdirectories:
<OUTPUT_REPORT_DIRECTORY>/ ├── index.html // Landing page for the report ├── <EXPORT_FILE>.csv // Optional export of data in CSV format ├── graph/ // Generated graphs used for indexing ├── reports/ // Generated HTML reports ├── stats/ // Performance statistics
See the Reviewing the reports section of the MTR CLI Guide for information on the MTR reports and how to use them to assess your migration or modernization effort.