The JavaRanch Journal about the forum migration is out.

Since I was involved in the details of the project, I wrote quite a bit.  It contains:

• My overview of why we did it, what technologies we used, the timeline and process
• Pauline’s interview with Ulf, Ernest, Bear, Amit and myself
• My article on the data migration including analysis.
• A cute interview where Ernest talks in elvish along with a cute extended analogy he wrote comparing the forum migration to a physical farm move.
• A Lucene article from the Lucene in Action authors.  (JForum uses Lucene making it relevant to the migration.)