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The first article on this topic explained the basic concepts of Open Rewrite. The second article dealt with the technical implementation of recipes and this article discusses the use of Open Rewrite in the context of an organisation's application portfolio. The use of internal libraries, application portfolios and efficient use as a service will be discussed.

Open Rewrite offers a variety of migrations for common libraries and frameworks. They significantly reduce the migration effort and make the application repeatable. But how can developers provide recipes for their own frameworks? In the second part of my blog post on automated modernisation, I provide an introduction to the development of Open Rewrite recipes.

This blog post is the first of three parts whose overarching theme is the open source framework Open Rewrite, which can be used to automate large-scale source code migrations. In this first part, I will briefly outline the motivation for using Open Rewrite. I will describe how existing migrations can be used to modernise a software product.

Legacy application modernisation is a much-discussed topic at the moment. It is an issue that concerns 90 per cent of mainframe users who are in search of a solution to their dependency on mainframes. Why is this an issue? What solutions are available on the market? What is the current situation today and what services can adesso transformer offer to replace legacy systems? Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to legacy application modernisation? I explore these questions in my blog post.