{
  "id": 17101651,
  "title": "Build a repeatable PHP-to-Java migration engine with Kiro",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/build-a-repeatable-php-to-java-migration-engine-with-kiro",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-29T18:14:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AWS Machine Learning",
    "slug": "aws-machine-learning",
    "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-a-repeatable-php-to-java-migration-engine-with-kiro/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Building a repeatable PHP-to-Java migration engine with Kiro enables teams to transition mature PHP applications to Java more confidently. This process converts codebases from Laravel, Symfony, or Doctrine into idiomatic Java while preserving business rules and logic. Kiro, an AI-integrated development environment, guides the migration through an eight-phase workflow, ensuring the Java port behaves exactly like the original PHP application. The approach requires familiarity with PHP and Java, a Kiro workspace, and access to skill files encoded as versioned Markdown packages. Two methods exist to run the engine: Kiro, which offers an interactive, developer-in-the-loop experience, and AWS Transform, an agentic AI service suitable for scaling migrations across multiple applications. Regardless of the method, the engine's shared methodology ensures parity between the original PHP and generated Java code, promoting a measurable and repeatable migration process.",
  "summary": "Turn a PHP-to-Java migration from a one-time leap of faith into a measurable, repeatable process with Kiro. This post walks through a reusable engine: a mechanical discovery scanner and an eight-phase, parity-first workflow that treats the original PHP application as the specification and verifies the Java port with a parity harness.",
  "key_points": [
    "Kiro enables repeatable PHP-to-Java migration engine",
    "AI-integrated environment guides eight-phase workflow",
    "Two methods: Kiro for interactive experience, AWS Transform for scaling"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}