Using Sun's Migration Tool

Question

I have been handed a project where the primary requirement is to
convert a Websphere/DB2 application to either Sun App server(or
JBoss)/Apache/M$ SQL Server or some other DB like mySQL.
The
first item I undertook was to get the code (jar files, ear files, etc)
and the DDL files for the database. Next, I downloaded and setup
Eclipse for J2EE development, installed Sun's App Server, downloaded
the Sun Migration Tool and followed the instructions to enable it to
work within the App Server environment. As a test, I randomly grabbed a
JAR file from the pile of code to see if it would run through the
Migration tool. Of course, it threw an exception... but, I'm at a loss
as to what I need to do to move forward from this point. If anyone has
any idea of how to do a migration from Websphere to Sun App Server or
JBoss, I sure would appreciate some pointers... The exception:
Code:
Exception in thread {color:red}"AWT-EventQueue-0"{color} java.util.MissingResourceException: Can{color:navy}'t{color}
find resource {color:navy}*for*{color} bundle java.util.PropertyResourceBundle, key ASMTGUI.ErrorMsg
FileDoesnotExists
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getObject(ResourceBundle.java:384)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getString(ResourceBundle.java:344)
at sun.iasmt.util.ASMTResourceBundle.getValue(Unknown Source)
at sun.iasmt.util.ASMTResourceBundle.getValue(Unknown Source)
at sun.iasmt.user.gui.GuiMain.validateSrcInputArgs(Unknown Source)
at sun.iasmt.user.gui.GuiMain.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at sun.iasmt.user.gui.ActionPanel.processActionEvent(Unknown Source)
at sun.iasmt.user.gui.ActionPanel$4.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1995)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2318)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236)
at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(AWTEventMulticaster.java:272)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6041)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3265)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5806)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2058)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4413)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2116)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4243)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4322)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3986)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3916)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2102)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2440)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4243)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:273)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:183)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:173)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:168)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:160)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:121)    Thanks,
Da Liz

Answer 1

** bump ** still having this issue... and am pulling hairs out (losing more than gaining these days...) trying to figure out why the migration tool starts out fine then craps.
I decided to uninstall everything and create a whole new install of the latest j2EE JDK (since my original install had stuff inside of c:\Program Files\Java - and I wanted to eliminate tricky issues with having a space in the path). So, after uninstall and deleting all Java, I went through the registry on my dev machine and did a search for "c:\Program Files\Java" and replaced them all with "c:\java" - the new location for java stuff to be installed - then reinstalled everything anew.
then I tried migrating an ear that was a web app...
C:\>%asmt_home%\bin\asmigrate -c -S ws50 -T glassfish -t c:\temp\gfout c:\temp\cbc_20080717\source\cbci_app_v2\cbci_app.ear
JAVA_HOME=C:\Java\SDK\jdk\
ASMT_HOME=c:\Java\SDK\asmt
J2EE_HOME=C:\Java\SDK\
Extracting archives :-
Extracting: cbci_app.ear
xxx
Extracting: cbci_app.war
xxxxxx
Clean up...
Selected Directory is not empty. Some Output file(s) may be overwritten. Do you
want to continue? (Y/N):y
Pre-processing input :-
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Migration Status :-
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType.value()Ljavax/xml/bind/annotation/AccessType;
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.ClassInfoImpl.getAccessType(ClassInfoImpl.java:244)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.ClassInfoImpl.getProperties(ClassInfoImpl.java:195)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.RuntimeClassInfoImpl.getProperties(RuntimeClassInfoImpl.java:79)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.ModelBuilder.getClassInfo(ModelBuilder.java:112)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.RuntimeModelBuilder.getClassInfo(RuntimeModelBuilder.java:45)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.RuntimeModelBuilder.getClassInfo(RuntimeModelBuilder.java:37)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.ModelBuilder.getTypeInfo(ModelBuilder.java:141)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.RegistryInfoImpl.<init>(RegistryInfoImpl.java:50)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.ModelBuilder.addRegistry(ModelBuilder.java:183)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.model.impl.ModelBuilder.getTypeInfo(ModelBuilder.java:152)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.getTypeInfoSet(JAXBContextImpl.java:306)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.runtime.JAXBContextImpl.<init>(JAXBContextImpl.java:179)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:70)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:50)
        at com.sun.xml.bind.v2.ContextFactory.createContext(ContextFactory.java:118)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.newInstance(ContextFinder.java:133)
        at javax.xml.bind.ContextFinder.find(ContextFinder.java:286)
        at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:372)
        at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:337)
        at javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext.newInstance(JAXBContext.java:244)
        at sun.iasmt.util.ASMTJaxbContext.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.convertors.common.xmlconvertor.AppReader.read(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.control.SJSMTXmlFileHandler.readXMLFile(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.control.ASMTController.startupEngineAndConvert(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.control.ASMTController.startupEngineAndConvert(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.user.cmd.CommandCallController.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.user.IASMTMain.runTool(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.user.IASMTMain.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at sun.iasmt.user.IASMTMain.main(Unknown Source)
C:\>    Looks slightly different, but in general, I am still getting the same old stuff as in the previous posting... Maybe the strange syntax in the first line of the exception is the clue "javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType.value()Ljavax/xml/bind/annotation/AccessType;" but I can't find this in my code and am wondering if anyone has ever seen anything like this before? Also, I'm noting that all references in the exception path to any sun.iasmt.* classes are "Unknown Source"... perhaps another clue to something not defined or configured somewhere; but what and where? I just don't know where to look...
BTW - the code I am working on converting is from a Websphere 5.1 runtime environment and I have no access to the server that the files were exported from.
Da Lizard