The Oracle JDeveloper Application Migration Assistant (AMA) is a tool that simplifies the process of migrating applications to the Oracle platform. It identifies statements in your application code that may need to be modified to work with Oracle. The tool provides simple code navigation and progress reporting to guide you through the application migration.

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Release 1.2.0 Now Available for Download

The latest release of the Oracle JDeveloper Application Migration Assistant is available for download here. This new release contains the following new functionality:

	Support for Oracle JDeveloper 10g version 9.0.5.2
	New rule name helpurl attribute to enable help on rules to be displayed within AMA
	Support for case-sensitive search rules
	New stringliteral rule name attribute to limit AMA rule searches to string literals. This is particularly useful for embedded SQL migrations.
	Significant enhancements to the default AMA search rules file to reduce false positives and provide additional support for generic ODBC and OLEDB interfaces
	New Oracle Search Rules for SQL Server 2000 Migrations utilizing the 1.2.0 new AMA tags
	Updated Informix ESQL/C search rules file using helpurl attributes

Core Features

	Identifies and allows easy navigation between statements in the code that may require modification to work on the Oracle platform
	Analyzes complete projects or single files
	Generates an Analysis Report that summarizes project statistics
	Uses regular expressions in XML format that provide a search rule capability to identify issues
	Allows rules to be customized so you can augment the search capability
	Provides an extensible API that allows additional rule sets to be written
	Provides default search rules called Oracle Rules for SQL Migrations
	Allows annotation of code to track migration progress and status
	Generates a migration report that identifies the status of all migration issues

Additional Search Rules Files

Submit your own customized search rules files and be entered into a draw to win a free Oracle polo shirt! Read our "Creating a New AMA Search Rules File White Paper". Visit the AMA Search Rules Exchange to download the latest customized search rules files for the AMA tool.