FEATURE
Key takeaways
Why Blue Pearl modernised
• Security first: Migrated to Java 25( LTS) to benefit from years of cumulative security patches and compliance improvements.
• Performance gains: Leveraged JVM enhancements and modern concurrency capabilities to improve application performance.
• Faster development: Eliminated developer time spent resolving deprecated APIs and dependency conflicts.
• Customer proof point: Demonstrated an internal success story before taking AI-assisted modernisation to enterprise clients. throughout the entire software development lifecycle. Rather than focusing solely on code generation, the platform assists with planning, refactoring, testing, deployment and application modernisation while maintaining enterprise governance and security controls.
Working alongside Blue Pearl’ s engineering team, IBM Bob analysed the existing codebase, identified deprecated APIs, mapped dependency relationships and automated significant portions of the refactoring process.
The project followed a structured three-day execution model. The first day focused on analysing the codebase, defining the upgrade
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