Migrating from Version 5.0

Migration Guide : Migrating from Version 5.0

This chapter addresses concerns for users of VisualAge Smalltalk V5.0 who are migrating to the current release of VA Smalltalk.

Before you beginning the migration steps in this chapter, make sure you have completed the pre-migration steps in Preparing for Migration.

After you complete any needed migration steps mentioned in this chapter, you should continue to the subsequent chapters of this document to review further migration requirements.

The topics covered in this chapter include the following:

•Some base features no longer available

•Some separately priced features no longer available

•Hiding Java packages and projects in browsers

•Providing a customized splash screen

•Migrating feature control files

•Importing feature code

•Migrating method mappings to JDK 1.2 or later

•Changes in Server Workbench

•Current code page support is inconsistent on supported platforms

•AbtConnectionSpec>>#targetCodePage: now expects a String as an argument

Last modified date: 07/02/2019