[RFE] Multi-language support

[eemcmullan]

As of now, kantra assumes the analysis of Java applications. We need to add support for other language providers from https://github.com/konveyor/analyzer-lsp.

See konveyor/enhancements#165 for details.

[ascheman]

Even for Java you should distinguish between several build systems (Majors are Maven and Gradle, but there are several others around). Even if a pom.xml is around the project might use Gradle as primary build system. So if all else fails, let the user explicitly specify the (Java) build system.

The same holds true for other languages/frameworks, e.g., Node/NPM vs. yarn or others for JavaScript/TypeScript.

Another point might be, that there are hybrid projects, e.g., a Java backend with embedded JavaScript frontend. The backend build could call a frontend build then, e.g., Maven build calls npm build via a plugin. So it should be possible to specify more than one provider (and their specific parameters).

[dymurray]

Related: konveyor/analyzer-lsp#470

[mail2nadeem92]

Hello @eemcmullan,

Please add a size label (size/XS, size/S, size/M, size/L, size/XL) to assist in the Konveyor planning process.

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