upgradeGemStone script

This section explain how to upgrade GemStone/S to a higher version.

There are serveral steps to upgrade GemStone to an higher version. These steps are as comments in the script itself. Here we comment the steps that has to be done in manual fashion.

Start STEP 1: Check for use of deprecated methods There are several ways to detect the use of deprecated methods by your application. 1) Enabling exception signaling for deprecated methods and run all tests 1.1) Deprecated doErrorOnDeprecated 1.2) Run all tests and check if any is failing because of 1.1) 1.3) Deprecated doNothingOnDeprecated 1.4) Update methods that call deprecated ones 2) Search references to deprecated: 2.1) Update methods that call deprecated ones 3) Enabling log call 3.1) Deprecated doLogOnDeprecated 3.2) Check deprecation log file to collect calls to deprecated methods 3.3) Deprecated doNothingOnDeprecated 3.4) Update methods that call deprecated ones 4) Enabling stack call 4.1) Deprecated doLogStackOnDeprecated 4.2) Check deprecation log file to collect calls to deprecated methods 4.3) Deprecated doNothingOnDeprecated 4.4) Update methods that call deprecated ones Any of these 4 techniques can be used to detect deprecated methods.