migration

Can I dynamically load additional Spring configuration files into an existing WebApplicationContext?

Upon starting my webapp within Tomcat 6.0.18, I bootstrap Spring with only what is necessary to initialize the system -- namely, for now, database migrations. I do not want any part of the system to load until the migrations have successfully completed. This prevents the other beans from having to wait on the migrations to complete bef...

Experience migrating legacy Cobol/PL1 to Java

ORIGINAL Q: I'm wondering if anyone has had experience of migrating a large Cobol/PL1 codebase to Java? How automated was the process and how maintainable was the output? How did the move from transactional to OO work out? Any lessons learned along the way or resources/white papers that may be of benefit would be appreciated. ED...

Upgrading SQL Server 2000 to MySQL 5.1 using DTS - How solve DateTime problem?

I'm trying to migrate from sql server 2000 to mysql by using DTS. That's the best tool I know yet. But one a sql server tables has a column with datetime type, the DTS suggest the following sql code: `StartDate` long varbinary NULL, `EndDate` long varbinary NULL, It should be: `StartDate` DateTime NULL, `EndDate` DateTime NUL...

django south ValueError: "you cannot instantiate a stub model"

so i'm trying to do a data migration where i take the "listings" from a realestate app into a new "listings" app that i've created. i did startmigration like this: python manage.py startmigration listings migrate_listings --freeze realestate created a blank migration, which i populated with this: def forwards(self, orm): "Wr...

Any Rails-Migration-like framework suggestions for .NET?

The idea of "rails migration" is awesome and I'm going to use this way in my coming new project on .NET platform for db schema version control. MigratorDotNet seems like something I need but some limitations block me, such as no stored procedure support. Are there any better solutions for that? ...

VB6 migrating to .Net with Visual Studio 2010

Has anyone migrated a VB6 project to .Net with Visual Studio 2010? I have tested the migration in VS2005, but the resulting .Net code was so messed up, that we decided not to migrate to .Net. So has the VS2010 migration wizard been improved over the wizard in VS2005 or VS2008? ...

Building Proxy/Stub dll in VS 2008

I have a ATLCOM project migrated from VC6 to VS2008. My question is, how do I build the ps dllon VS 2008? New ATL projects in VS2008 have a separate PS project which builds the ps dll. But the migration from VC6 did not create this project. I tried to invoke nmake on the ps mk file but that gives a redefinition error for an enum type w...

Move data from Excel to Word and reformat it

Hi, is there a way to move the data from an excel sheet to a word document and reformat it. I'd like the data in the first column to be formatted as 'Heading1' and the data in the second column to be formatted as 'Normal'. So that every row results in a header and a content, but without a table itself. ...

Migrating ASP web site into Sharepoint 2007

I need to migrate a ASP legacy web application into MOSS 2007. Is there any tool that can be used for migration? if so please specify? ...

How to create a new user in SharePoint when the user doesn't exist in AD?

Hi all: I have to import a lot of old data into SharePoint. In this data, I need to create a lot of users who are no longer in AD. Does anyone have any idea how to do that? Cheers ...

Is there a python module compatible with Google Apps Engine's new "Tasks"

I'm writing a Python application, that I want to later migrate to GAE. The new "Task Queues" API fulfills a requirement of my app, and I want to simulate it locally until I have the time to migrate the whole thing to GAE. Does anyone know of a compatible module I can run locally? ...

Defining SubSonic 3 ActiveRecord migrations

I'm starting an ASP.NET MVC project using SubSonic 3 ActiveRecord. I added a table Users with a primary key ID and recompiled T4 files to generate User class. I want to make sure that, as I go along with the development, I can regenerate/migrate the database at any point. It looks like I have to create tables and relationships in the da...

SubSonic 2 Migrations Addon: Create a MySQL specific ForeignKey Migrationstep

I use migrations a lot (only MySQL) and since SubSonic Migrations only allows to define the parent and the master column in CreateForeignKey, I cannot define the update/delete actions in a FK Relation. However there a quite a number of scenarios where I, for instance, need to define a FK relation where, if I delete the parent record, al...

What tools for migrating programs from a plateform A to B

Hi, As a pet project, I was thinking about writing a program to migrate applications written in a language A into a language B. A and B would be object-oriented languages. I suppose it is a very hard task : mapping language constructs that are alike is doable, but mapping libraries concepts will be a very long task. I was wondering what...

how to insert html tag inside sql in Liquibase migration ?

Hi , I need to update my data that have html tag inside so wrote this on liquibase <sql> update table_something set table_content = " something <br/> in the next line " </sql> it apparently doesn't work on liquibase ( i got loooong errors .. and meaningless). I tried to remove <br/> and it works. my question is, is it possible to in...

Schema considerations when moving from an RDBMS (MySQL) to Solr

Whilst testing a Solr install for a future MySQL -> Solr migration, it's immediately apparent that the "rules" for what constitutes a good data stucture, and by extension an efficient search, are very different in Solr when compared to an RDBMS like MySQL. The most obvious thing being that data isn't (or doesn't seem to be) normalised to...

Strange behaviour migrating sessions with callbacks from php4 to php5

I have to migrate a php4 app that uses session_set_save_handler() to php5. In php4 everything was fine, but in php5 the callback functions cannot access the global vars anymore, which were set on the page before session_set_save_handler() was called. In the example below the global var $g1 cannot be accessed in the session_writer() (wh...

Long Application Startup times on WebSphere Application Server 6.1 FixPack 21

Hi, I'm seeing that my application startup times have grown long after I've migrated from WAS FixPack15 to FixPack 21. By application startup time, I mean the interval between the log statements : WSVR0200I: Starting application AND WSVR0221I: Application started This interval was less than 10 sec on FP 15, but it is 2 min on FP 21....

Java/Groovy Rails Database Migrations

Is there a tool in the Java/Groovy world that lets me manage database changes similar to the way that Rails Database Migrations work? ...

Creating a self-contained source release with Maven

Up until now we used Ant in my company. Whenever we wanted to send the application to the client we run a special Ant script that packaged all our source code with all jar libraries and Ant itself along with a simple batch file. Then the client could put the files on a computer with no network access at all (and not even Ant) and run th...