Square2I've not tinkered with AI yet. Would it ace upgrading a project from Spring 5.x to SpringBoot 3.5?
Square2I mean agentic coding AI
ParaDunno how much of an acing it would be, but it can do Spring Boot quite well.
ParaSo...possibly yes, just needs reviewing.
ParaAnd I'm just generally throwing out "it". There's so much Spring code out there that all models definitely can do their darnest.
Square2hmm. Too bad I don't have access to an agent yet =(
dreamrealSpring 5 to Spring Boot is doable but I'd progress Spring -> Spring Boot matching your spring version, THEN upgrade Spring Boot release by release
dreamrealSquare2: free agents can do it, too, just slowly and in small chunks. Also see OpenRewrite.
Square2dreamreal, gotcha. Yeah, I've used OpenRewrite with some luck. I was fearing it would require me to run every migration from 2018(?) to now to get it where I want it to be.
cheesereven if it did, that'd be less work than manually doing it yourself.
dreamrealSquare2: well, considering that that's the actual path I just recommended...
dreamrealYou can do it more directly. but you're better off doing it incrementally
ParaIf I were to do that kind of effort, I'd probably do some refactoring first as well.
dreamrealIt's probably not esp necessary in and of itself
ParaAgentic even, tell it to unify patterns and annotation uses in controllers and that sort of stuff.
dreamrealif the app was designed around spring in the first place, it's really infrastructure changes that you'd want to step through
ParaI've had my fair self induced problems of misunderstanding how part of the framework is meant to be used and later on finding out that I was dum and 90% of the stuff is redundant :)
ParaAgent mode with "ask if unclear" in prompts is a pretty good combination as well.
Para(when it works, sometimes...stuff breaks)
Square2I test my luck with OpenRewrite. Finding the oldest migration I can find to begin with =D
dreamrealGood luck. And I wouldn't expect it to be zero-effort on your part. It might be light effort, but you SHOULD expect to have to be involved.
Square2I've done numerous of these spring upgrades past 10 years so trust me, I know.
ParaSo you're a re-Springer.
Square2It's boring work, but it's pretty chill.
Square2Could take a week to upgrade a large project. I fear you can't motivate that cost any more with AI around.
dreamrealI dunno, depends on strategy and approach and scope, I guess
dreamrealNot having insight into the project I wouldn't be able to estimate either way