Can I keep iBatis and Mybatis in the same application while switching to myBatis?

Question

The question is the one of the title. There follows a brief explanation.

I have an application which uses iBatis 2 and I would like to migrate to the latest version of myBatis (3.2.0 at the momento of writing). Since I don't have enough time to start and finish the work without having to do other tasks on that application, and considering that creating a branch would require a painful merge at the end, I was wondering if I can introduce myBatis and then meet my goal gradually. In the end iBatis would be removed entirely.

Can I encounter some conflicts on the way? In other words, can iBatis 2.3 and MyBatis 3.2 live together? Maybe some of you faced the same problem.

Answer 1

I think the migration process is not very complicated at all, it is a task you can achieve in a few hours.

Most of the work is in changing packages names. Take a look to this doc.

Anyway, since iBatis and myBatis use different packages should not be any problem to work with them at the same time.