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Effortlessly Migrate Your Spring Boot Application with OpenRewrite

Naveen Metta
3 min readApr 1, 2024

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Spring Boot development thrives on continuous innovation. New features and updates emerge regularly, but upgrading your codebase to leverage them can be a daunting task. Manual migration is time-consuming and prone to errors, especially when dealing with significant version jumps. Here’s where OpenRewrite steps in as your hero!

OpenRewrite is a powerful ecosystem dedicated to refactoring Java and other source code. It simplifies tasks like dependency upgrades, security patching, and technology migrations. Let’s explore how OpenRewrite can streamline your Spring Boot 2.x to 3.2 migration.

Farewell, Manual Toil — Embrace Automation

Imagine manually combing through your entire codebase, meticulously updating dependencies, addressing deprecated APIs, and ensuring compatibility with the latest Spring Boot version. OpenRewrite eliminates this tedious process. By leveraging its “recipes,” you can automate these changes with remarkable ease.

A Recipe for Success: Migrating to Spring Boot 3.2

OpenRewrite offers a dedicated recipe specifically designed for migrating Spring Boot applications to version 3.2. This recipe tackles various aspects of the migration, including:

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Naveen Metta
Naveen Metta

Written by Naveen Metta

I'm a Full Stack Developer with 3+ years of experience. feel free to reach out for any help : mettanaveen701@gmail.com

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