"Heirloom Computing’s toolset offers rapid transformations with precise results. It has added GenAI capabilities to enhance speed and quality, delivering clean Java code that is easy to improve and maintain."
Pedro Luís Bicudo Maschio, Distinguished Analyst and Executive Advisor, ISG why heirloom/x?
benefits
Pathway to Modern Development Ecosystems
Move beyond the constraints of legacy language ecosystems and rigid application architectures. Heirloom/X creates a clear pathway to idiomatic Java that opens access to modern frameworks, development tools, cloud-native patterns, and the broader Java ecosystem - enabling innovation and development velocity that legacy architectures simply cannot support.
Business-Driven Modernization
Transform applications based on business value, not technical constraints. Prioritize modernization by user demand, competitive advantage, and strategic importance rather than technical complexity. Some applications become innovation platforms, others remain functional - you decide based on what drives your business forward.
Complete Control Over Your Journey
Our two-stage pathway puts you in command. Migrate fast with Heirloom for immediate operational benefits, then selectively modernize with Heirloom/X when business priorities dictate. No forced multi-year rewrites or vendor-dictated timelines - modernize at your pace, scope, and business requirements.
Preserve Your Investment in People
Leverage existing team expertise throughout transformation. COBOL and PL/1 developers continue working with familiar business logic. Java developers enhance and extend applications. Business analysts focus on requirements rather than technical constraints. Everyone contributes using their current skills while applications become more strategic assets.
Faster Time-to-Value Than Traditional Approaches
Unlike solutions that lock you into lengthy reengineering projects, Heirloom delivers working modern applications immediately, then enables selective modernization based on business ROI. Get operational benefits now, strategic advantages later - all without the risk and timeline of complete application rewrites.
AI-Powered Code Transformation
Heirloom/X leverages advanced generative AI, semantic, and semiotic analysis to understand decades of business logic embedded in your applications. Our AI-driven approach goes beyond mechanical transpilation to intelligently restructure code, recognize patterns, and generate truly modern Java that follows contemporary best practices and architectural principles.
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FAQ
How is Heirloom/X different from Heirloom refactoring?
Heirloom produces faithful Java representations of your COBOL or PL/1 applications and automatically exposes business rules as REST services. Heirloom/X restructures that code into clean, idiomatic Java that follows contemporary best practices and is optimized for long-term maintainability and development productivity.
What advantages does Heirloom/X provide over transpiled code?
While transpiled code from Heirloom is functional and preserves business logic, Heirloom/X restructures it into modern Java architecture with cleaner code organization, separation of business logic from framework concerns, modern memory management patterns, and code that development teams can easily enhance and extend.
How does the pathway to idiomatic Java work technically?
Heirloom/X uses semiotic analysis and LLM-driven transformation to understand your application's business semantics and patterns, then restructures the code using modern Java idioms, design patterns, and architectural principles. This transforms faithful representations into applications that leverage contemporary development practices and maintainability standards.
Is Heirloom/X designed specifically for Heirloom applications?
Yes. It understands the structure and patterns of our transpiled code and transforms them into idiomatic modern Java. This purpose-built approach provides the natural evolution path from working transpiled applications to optimized modern architectures.
How do you maintain business logic integrity during restructuring?
Heirloom/X preserves all business rules through comprehensive validation frameworks. Semantic analysis ensures restructured code maintains identical business behavior while the new idiomatic structure provides better maintainability, cleaner separation of concerns, and improved development experience.
What does architectural transformation mean for our applications?
Heirloom/X restructures monolithic transpiled applications into modern distributed architectures. This includes decomposing applications into appropriate service boundaries, transforming transaction patterns (like replacing 2-phase commit with SAGA patterns), and creating cloud-native applications optimized for horizontal scaling.
How do you optimize applications for modern development practices?
Heirloom/X restructures code to eliminate verbose patterns, creates clean separation between business logic and technical implementation, implements modern memory management, and generates code that follows industry-standard Java conventions that development teams expect and can easily work with.
What does architectural transformation deliver practically?
Beyond cleaner code, Heirloom/X creates proper service boundaries, implements modern transaction patterns like SAGA, optimizes data access for distributed environments, and generates applications structured for contemporary development workflows and maintenance practices.