We're excited to announce the latest release of IBM Application Modernization Accelerator Developer Tools (AMA Dev Tools) 2.0, available within the IntelliJ, Visual Studio Code and Eclipse IDEs. AMA Dev Tools is available as a component with IBM Enterprise Application Runtimes (EAR) and with IBM Modernized Runtime Extension for Java (MoRE).
Highlights in this release:
- VS Code and IntelliJ only (currently):
- Updates to application analysis within IDE:
- Option to select required Java EE or Jakarta EE source and target
- IBM Modernized Runtime Extension (MoRE) for Java has been added as a selectable target runtime (in addition to Liberty)
- All IDEs:
- Translation support for French and Japanese languages
- Access Keys have been introduced to replace license keys
To learn more about this new release, please refer to our announcement blog in the IBM TechXchange community for WebSphere and Liberty:
https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/grace-jansen/2026/07/14/new-release-ama-dev-tools-2
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Grace Robinson
Product Manager for JSphere Tools
IBM
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