Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1. About the Windup Eclipse Plugin Guide

This guide is for engineers, consultants, and others who want to use the Windup Eclipse Plugin to assist with migrating applications.

Note

This guide uses Eclipse to refer to an installation of Eclipse or JBoss Developer Studio.

See the Windup User Guide to learn more about Windup features, supported migration paths, reports, and rules.

1.2. About the Windup Eclipse Plugin

The Windup Eclipse Plugin makes application migrations and upgrades faster and easier by bringing Windup’s migration assistance to Eclipse and Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio. It analyzes your projects using Windup, marks migration issues in the source code, provides guidance to fix the issues, and offers automatic code replacement when possible.

1.3. Supported Configurations

The Windup Eclipse Plugin is tested in following development environments.

  • Eclipse 4.6 (Neon)
  • Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 10.2