Migration to Webmethods 8

Based on errors we were having in 7.1.3 (we think our install was corrupt) we finally decided to migrate to 8.

Here's what we've done so far.

1. Installed and configured IS8 and MWS8.
2. Installed JDBC drivers
3. Exported all the IS Packages we wanted to keep from 7 and placed in replicate/inbound on IS 8 and installed them from there.
4. Copied properties files from 7 to 8
5. Setup all existing scheduled tasks
6. Synced all the publishable documents in the WM8 broker
7. Set the permissions for all our web service connectors to Anonymous (it seemed to revert to the default when installed from the inbound directory).
8. Created all the web service consumer aliases.

This got IS up and running and it seems fine.  We still need to regression test it, but all the packages passed basic tests.


Then I moved on to deploying our process models from WM7 into WM8.  When I opened the projects I had to change the jre from 150 to 160.  I also had to fix a couple library issues.  (We didn't want to try and deploy the process models directly into 8 as we have had numerous problems with them, so we wanted to start from scratch on them.)

I also created a new process.  This process is working fine in MWS8.  The ported processes are getting a null pointer exception on the task interface.  I'm still investigating that. 

But so far, the IS upgrade was pretty smooth.  The MWS upgrade is still taking some time.  More on that later.