SAP released a tool to move custom Java programs off NetWeaver by its 2030 deadline. It says no tool fully automates that.
An SAP product expert wrote on the company's community site on 10 November that its NetWeaver Application Migration Assistant is available now.
NetWeaver AS Java is an older SAP platform on which companies and their partners built their own programs.
The post calls those custom programs the hardest part of leaving the platform. Moving them by hand, it says, takes experienced Java architects and "time measured not in sprints but in quarters". It refers to a 2030 deadline and an SAP note on the platform's end of maintenance, when SAP's support stops.
The tool, the post says, restructures the code for SAP's cloud in four guided steps. An AI feature tuned for Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 model proposes changes to what is left. A developer accepts or rejects each one.
"No tool can fully automate the migration of complex, bespoke business logic," it says.
The post names no customer, no share of code converted automatically and no time saved. The AI feature needs further SAP subscriptions, with no price given.
Standard SAP software has a vendor roadmap. For the programs a company wrote itself, the migration work still sits with the company and its partners.
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