java-migration

A guide for moving a Java project from one major version to another, especially between long-term-support releases such as Java 8, 11, 17, 21, and 25. It also covers related Spring Boot upgrades.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a project's current Java version, find incompatible APIs, and plan or carry out a version migration.
Why use it?
Major Java releases can remove APIs or change language and security behavior, so an upgrade can break an existing project.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/decebals/claude-code-java/java-migration
Any agent
npx skills add decebals/claude-code-java --skill java-migration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/decebals/claude-code-java

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,851 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00051 $0.03851
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01925
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00770
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00385

Measured yesterday against content hash a3e398c6d9bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

java-migration scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/java-migration/SKILL.md · 571 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 571 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Java Migration Skill

Step-by-step guide for upgrading Java projects between major versions.

When to Use

  • User says "upgrade to Java 25" / "migrate from Java 8" / "update Java version"
  • Modernizing legacy projects
  • Spring Boot 2.x → 3.x → 4.x migration
  • Preparing for LTS version adoption

Migration Paths

Java 8 (LTS) → Java 11 (LTS) → Java 17 (LTS) → Java 21 (LTS) → Java 25 (LTS)
     │              │               │              │               │
     └──────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────┴───────────────┘
                         Always migrate LTS → LTS

Quick Reference: What Breaks

From → To Major Breaking Changes
8 → 11 Removed javax.xml.bind, module system, internal APIs
11 → 17 Sealed classes (preview→final), strong encapsulation
17 → 21 Pattern matching changes, finalize() deprecated for removal
21 → 25 Security Manager removed, Unsafe methods removed, 32-bit dropped

Migration Workflow

Step 1: Assess Current State

# Check current Java version
java -version

# Check compiler target in Maven
grep -r "maven.compiler" pom.xml

# Find usage of removed APIs
grep -r "sun\." --include="*.java" src/
grep -r "javax\.xml\.bind" --include="*.java" src/

Step 2: Update Build Configuration

Maven:

<properties>
    <java.version>21</java.version>
    <maven.compiler.source>${java.version}</maven.compiler.source>
    <maven.compiler.target>${java.version}</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>

<!-- Or with compiler plugin -->
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.12.1</version>
    <configuration>
        <release>21</release>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Gradle:

java {
    toolchain {
        languageVersion = JavaLanguageVersion.of(21)
    }
}

Step 3: Fix Compilation Errors

Run compile and fix errors iteratively:

mvn clean compile 2>&1 | head -50

Read the full file on GitHub · 571 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 571 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A a3e398c6d9bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

java-migration is a skill published in the GitHub repository decebals/claude-code-java (722 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 3,851 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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