Except for user-defined extensions, you do not need to perform any tasks
to migrate your development and deployment resources, such as message flow
files and broker archive files. You can just start
using these resources with WebSphere
Business Integration Message Broker Version 6.0.
However, after you start using your resources in Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 6.0, there are restrictions to using these
same resources again with Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 5.0 or Version 5.1:
- Development resources
- When you use Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 6.0 to
save development resources (such as message flow files) that
were originally created in Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 5.0 or Version 5.1,
the resources are saved in Version 6.0 format.
- After you have saved resources in the Version 6.0 format,
you can no longer use them in Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 5.0 or Version 5.1.
This means that you cannot share development resources between Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 6.0 and previous versions of the Message
Brokers Toolkit.
- Files in the Version 5.0, Version 5.1,
and Version 6.0 formats can coexist in the Version 6.0 workspace. Resources remain in the Version 5.0 or Version 5.1 format
until you save them using Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 6.0.
- Deployment resources
- You can deploy broker archive (BAR) files created in Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 5.0 or Version 5.1 using Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 6.0.
- You can also deploy BAR files created in Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 6.0 using Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 5.0 or Version 5.1,
provided that the development resources referenced in the BAR file do not
make use of any new features that are available in WebSphere
Business Integration Event Broker Version
6.0 only.
You can also create a Version 6.0 BAR file that
contains Version 5.0 or Version 5.1 compiled
message flows.
Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 6.0 can
coexist with either Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 5.0 or Version 5.1 on the same system. However, because
you cannot share development resources between Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 6.0 and previous versions of the Message
Brokers Toolkit,
it is not recommended that Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 6.0 shares the same workspace with either Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 5.0 or Version 5.1.
Message
Brokers Toolkit Version 5.0 and Version 5.1 cannot
coexist on the same system.
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