Let's go through the migration process by working on the sample shopping bag application. It's a simple app that contains three classes--one to read user input, one to provide a shopping bag functionality, and one class with a main method to drive execution--iteratively taking in user input, adding it to the shopping bag, and then printing the contents of the bag. The application has a dependency on the commons collections JAR file for the Bag data structure. It also calls the Java logging API to log the start and end times to the console.
The shopping bag application has code that is referred to as a monolith. That is, all the code that forms the app is in one code base. This is really a simplification, and does not ...
