Migration considerations

WebSphere® Adapter for Lotus® Domino® version 7.5.0.3 might have some features and updates that might affect your existing adapter applications. Before migrating applications that use WebSphere Adapter for Lotus Domino, you must consider some factors that might affect your existing applications.

Compatibility with earlier versions

WebSphere Adapter for Lotus Domino version 7.5.0.3 is fully compatible with the custom business objects (XSD files) and data bindings that are created using the adapter version 7.5.0.2 and enables the existing business objects and data bindings to work well in the latest version of the adapter.

The version 7.5.0.3 of WebSphere Adapter for Lotus Domino is fully compatible with version 7.5.0.2, and therefore the applications that used the version 7.5.0.2 runs unchanged when you upgrade to version 7.5.0.3. However, if you want your applications to use features and functionality present in version 7.5.0.3 of the adapter, run the migration wizard.

The migration wizard replaces (upgrades) version 7.5.0.2 of the adapter with version 7.5.0.3 and enables version 7.5.0.3 features and functionality for use with your applications.

Note: The migration wizard does not create components or modify existing components, such as mappers and mediators to work with version 7.5.0.3 of the adapters. If any of your applications embed an adapter that is version 7.5.0.2 and you are upgrading to version 7.5.0.3, and you want your applications to take advantage of the features and functions in version 7.5.0.3, you might need to change to those applications.

If the artifacts within a module have inconsistent versions, the entire module is marked as unavailable for migration and cannot be selected. Version inconsistencies are recorded in the workspace log, as they indicate that a project might be corrupted.

The adapter migration wizard in Integration Designer version 7.5.0.3 only supports the migration of adapters from version 7.5.0.2 to version 7.5.0.3.

Deciding whether to upgrade or to upgrade and migrate

If you decide that you want to upgrade the adapter from version 7.5.0.2 to version 7.5.0.3, but you do not want to migrate the adapter artifacts, you can do so by clearing the adapter artifacts from the appropriate area of the migration wizard.

Running the migration wizard without selecting any adapter artifacts installs and upgrades your adapter. As the artifacts are not migrated, your applications cannot take advantage of the features and capabilities that exist in version 7.5.0.3 of the adapter.

Migrating multiple adapters referred within a project

When you select the module project and launch the migration wizard:

The Source connector field lists the connector projects with the selected module project.
The Dependent artifact projects area lists only the selected module project.

If you select the connector project and launch the migration wizard:

The Source connector field lists only the selected connector project.
The Dependent artifact projects area lists all projects which reference the selected connector project, including the module project.

Run the migration wizard in a test environment first

Because adapter migration might require you to change those applications that use version 7.5.0.3 of WebSphere Adapter for Lotus Domino, you must always perform the migration in a development environment first and test your applications before deploying the application to a production environment.

The migration wizard is fully integrated with the development environment.