Talked with Kim and others in Purchasing and got information on how to proceed. Relevant attachments and emails are in my "Budgets" email folder.

Attended "deep dish java" conference and talked with experts from IBM and elsewhere on upgrading IGB to use JDK 17, currently the preferred option. Learned about several command-line tools that can aid and even automate the migration process. See Description above.

Also, Ann has experimented a bit with moving to Java 18 and made a branch where she made some progress. She was able to get IGB to compile but not run under JDK 18. The branch is here: https://bitbucket.org/aloraine/integrated-genome-browser/branch/IGBF-3142

Found two removed Packages/Classes from Java 11 that is being used in IGB
com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities -> PopupInfo.java line 646 (package is not imported)
com.sun.security.auth.X500Principal -> IGBTrustManager (line 65,66)

Eclipse Transformer - to update Java EE libraries to Jakarta. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS5EJb_QYs8 and https://www.slideshare.net/Jakarta_EE/the-eclipse-transformer-project. After running the transformer a few files were updated as seen in the image.

After cloning the project from https://github.com/eclipse/transformer, go to the project and maven clean install:

mvnw clean install

Open org.eclipse.transformer.cli/target in the project folder

java -jar org.eclipse.transformer.cli-<version>.jar [IGB_Project_Folder] [Output_Folder]

After the changes are made the output folder has a new copy of the project with the changes but its just replacing with Jakarta.

JDeps and Migration Toolkit for Application Binaries are dependency analyser and evaluates application-binary files respectively which may assist in the migration but they are not very .

I did not get a chance to checkout Dependabot(https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core)

Thank you very much for the above information Karthik Raveendran ... bon voyage !

Many notes were made. Moving forward with the next phase of this project in linked ticket IGBF-3142.