Trailblazer
Myoungkyu Song, Eli Tilevich, Wesley Tansey · 2009
Since annotations were added to the Java language, many enterprise frameworks have been transitioning to using annotated Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) in their latest releases. Our automated refactoring tool, Trailblazer, alleviates the maintenance burden of such annotation refactoring tasks. The tool implements a novel approach that leverages a machine learning algorithm to infer semantics-preserving rules that are then used to automatically transform legacy Java classes.