Migration Notes

From 5.2.x to 5.3.x or more

This section applies if MicroEJ SDK 5.3.x is started on a workspace that was previously created using MicroEJ SDK 5.2.x.

Workspace migration warning

Starting with the MicroEJ SDK Distribution 20.10, when opening a workspace which has been created with an older MicroEJ Distribution, a message is displayed with the following warning:

The workspace was written with an older version. Continue and update workspace which may make it incompatible with older versions?

This is a generic warning from Eclipse which can be safely ignored as long as you don’t intend to open it back with an older MicroEJ SDK Distribution then.

From 5.1.x to 5.2.x

This section applies if MicroEJ SDK 5.2.x is started on a workspace that was previously created using MicroEJ SDK 5.1.x.

Enable New Wizards Shortcuts in MicroEJ Perspective

Eclipse perspective settings are stored in the workspace metadata, so the new wizards shortcuts (Add-On Library Project and Module Project) are not visible in the File > New menu.

The MicroEJ perspective must be reset to its default settings as following:

Click on Windows > Perspective > Open Perspective > Other… menu
Select MicroEJ perspective
Click on Windows > Perspective > Reset Perspective… menu
Click on Yes button to accept to reset the MicroEJ perspective to its defaults.

The new wizards shortcuts are now visible into File > New menu.

Re-enable the Ivy Preferences Pages (Advanced Use)

The original Window > Preferences > Ivy pages can be re-enabled as following:

Close all running instances of the SDK
Edit MicroEJ-SDK.ini and add the property -Dorg.apache.ivy.showAdvancedPrefs=true
Start the SDK again
Go to Window > Preferences > Module Manager page

A new link Ivy settings should appear on the bottom of the page. It opens a popup window with the original Ivy preferences pages.

From 4.1.x to 5.x

This section applies if MicroEJ SDK 5.x is started on a workspace that was previously created using MicroEJ SDK 4.1.x.

Wadapps Application Update

The Wadapps code generator has been moved from IDE to an Addon Processor coming with ej.library.wadapps.framework module (v1.9.0 or higher is required).

A Wadapps Application Project can be updated as follows:

Right-click on the project, then Configure > Remove Sandboxed Application Nature
Right-click on the project, then Configure > Add Sandboxed Application Nature
Update module.ivy dependency to fetch ej.library.wadapps.framework version 1.9.0 (or perform MicroEJ Module Manager update as defined below)
Delete remaining folder src/.generated~ if any
Check that project compiles and folder src-adpgenerated/wadapps is generated

MicroEJ Module Manager Update

It is highly recommended to migrate module.ivy to the MicroEJ Module Manager semantic, since the default Ivy resolution will be no more maintained in future versions.

The module.ivy can be updated as follows:

Right-click on module.ivy, then Update Module Dependencies…

This has for effect to both migrate the module.ivy to the MicroEJ Module Manager semantic and also to update dependencies version to the latest available in the target repository.

Meta build Project Update

A project using microej-meta-build version 1.x can be updated to version 2.x as follows:

Edit module.ivy
- Replace the microej-meta-build version by 2.0.+
- Update all properties declaration to append the metabuild.inject. prefix (e.g. <ea:property name="skip.test" value="true" /> must be updated to <ea:property name="metabuild.inject.skip.test" value="true" />)
- Optionally remove or comment the root folder declaration as it is the default. (<ea:property name="metabuild.root" value=".." />)
Delete module.properties. It only contains the property easyant.fork.build=true. This property is now automatically set by easyant-build-component since version 1.12.0. Otherwise it must be explicitly injected by the build system as an Ant property: easyant.inject.easyant.fork.build=true
Extract from override.module.ant the projects declarations lines:
- Extract the project declarations of local.submodule.dirs.id into a new file named private.modules.list (one project per line)
- Extract the project declarations of submodule.dirs.id into a new file names public.modules.list (one project per line)
Delete override.module.ant

The new file system structure shall look like:

metabuild-project
    module.ivy
    private.modules.list
    public.modules.list