[arjan.tijms]

I would like to upgrade a web project from J2EE 1.3 to J2EE 1.4. I’ve looked in the FAQ, and although there is an entry on this, it’s not very satisfying.

Namely, it involves creating a new 1.4 project and copying all the resources in the 1.3 project to this. As the 1.3 project is under version control, I can’t just create a new project and check that in.

Can’t I just

1) remove the 1.3 library set, add the 1.4 one (through the project->properties->build path->libaries dialog),
2) Edit the .mymetadata in my project root and change the j2ee-spec attribute manually
3) Copy the JSTL 1.1 libs by hand, or use the wizard.

Would this scheme work? Are any other steps needed?

Thanks in advance.

[Riyad Kalla]

Arjan,
We don’t offer migration wizards because they aren’t always cut and dry like that. In this case though, the steps you outlined are exactly how I would do it, also you need a step #4, that is to upgrade the header of the web.xml file to use the 2.4 schema and also wrap your <taglib> entries in jsp-config tags.

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