What migration artifacts does Transformation Advisor create?

IBM Transformation Advisor produces migration artifacts for applications that are being migrated to Liberty. The migration artifacts kickstart the migration of your application. Transformation Advisor generates a Maven project for your application plus the resources that you need to build your application into an image and deploy it.

The following table describes the artifacts that Transformation Advisor produces.

Table 1. Summary of generated migration resources and descriptions
Artifact Description
server.xml Contains the configuration the Liberty server needs for your application...
pom.xml The fundamental unit of work in Maven...
Source skeleton A source skeleton project that contains a deployment descriptor and a simple index.html file.
Containerfile A multistage Containerfile first builds the project. For a binary project specified with Maven coordinates, it pulls down the application binary and dependencies. Then, it creates a Liberty image ready for deployment.
Application CR A custom resource (CR) configuration for your application...