# Build a repeatable PHP-to-Java migration engine with Kiro

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> **Original Source**: [AWS ML Blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-a-repeatable-php-to-java-migration-engine-with-kiro/)
> **Author**: Sarat Guttikonda (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Thursday, October 29, 2026
> **Category**: INDUSTRY
> **Tags**: AI, AWS ML Blog, industry

## Executive Summary
Turn a PHP-to-Java migration from a one-time leap of faith into a measurable, repeatable process with Kiro. This post walks through a reusable engine: a mechanical discovery scanner and an eight-phase, parity-first workflow that treats the original PHP...



## Full Coverage
When your team moves a mature PHP application to Java, you gain stronger type safety, broader library support, and more predictable scaling. A PHP codebase built over the years with Laravel, Symfony, or Doctrine carries business rules in places that are not obvious, from Eloquent traits to XML mapping files, so a structurally similar Java port can compile cleanly and still behave differently

This post shows how to turn PHP-to-Java migration from a one-time leap of faith into a measurable, repeatable process using Kiro . Kiro is an AI integrated development environment (IDE) that pairs an AI agent with your codebase to run multi-step engineering tasks with you in the loop. The approach centers on a reusable engine: a shared methodology, a mechanical discovery scanner, and an eight-phase workflow. This engine treats the original PHP application as the specification and refuses to declare the Java port correct until a parity harness verifies it

You start with an open repository, so you can run the engine yourself rather than read about it. Everything the engine knows lives in a small set of skill files, and with those files, you can run the same methodology in more than one way

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