Migrating a Project

You can migrate an adapter project created in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5 to TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6 by using the migration tool in TIBCO Business Studio.

Note:

You can migrate a TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5 project to a TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6 project, but not in reverse.
TIBCO Business Studio does not support importing .dat files from TIBCO Designer. To migrate a project stored in a .dat file, first you have import the file to TIBCO Designer and save it as a multi-file project.
The name of a project migrated to TIBCO Business Studio cannot contain any special characters such as: (space) ! $ % & + . / @ \ ~

Prerequisites

Before migrating a project to TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6, complete the following steps:

Migrating the project to the latest version of the runtime adapter.
Validating the project in TIBCO Designer.
For more information, see "Validating Projects" in TIBCO Designer User's Guide.

Procedure

In TIBCO Business Studio, choose one of the following two ways to open the BusinessWorks Migration Tool dialog:
- From the menu, click Project > Migrate BW Projects.
- From the menu, click File > Import. In the Import wizard, select Migrate BW Projects > Migrate BW Projects, and then click Next.
In the BusinessWorks Migration Tool dialog, click Browse next to the BusinessWorks 5 Projects Folder field to select the BusinessWorks 5 project folder containing the example project that you want to migrate.
In the BusinessWorks 5 Projects panel, click the project that you want to migrate.
Click Browse next to the Migrated Projects Folder field to select a directory to store the migrated project.
Click Migrate to start the migration process.
After the migration is finished, click Close.

What to do next

After migrating the project to TIBCO Business Studio, you have to Configure the Migrated Project.