Abel Salgado Romero

> Let's go for it and look where we end up. You were convincing me now, it seems I do not understand Boot policies. But in the end, I still...

The `AsciidoctorCoreException` is simply wrapping the exception coming from JRuby, with no manipulation. https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctorj/blob/088e373c520bd59a6d0071cdd9c5090c0d858655/asciidoctorj-core/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/jruby/internal/JRubyAsciidoctor.java#L330 https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctorj/blob/088e373c520bd59a6d0071cdd9c5090c0d858655/asciidoctorj-core/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/jruby/internal/JRubyAsciidoctor.java#L412 Can you provide a reproducer or the repo that's causing the issue? That way we...

> That's weird. > Intuitively I would say that I see such circular references every day when debugging any problem in whatever software. > Or am I totally wrong here?...

> Just FTR Maven 3.9.4 (coming soon) have a fix for this issue, while we still think this is "not our bad". [apache/maven@36db1e3](https://github.com/apache/maven/commit/36db1e35cac5e8c72bf0c795dd08756e50079e05) > > Also reported to JRuby [jruby/jruby#7861](https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues/7861)...

Thanks, at least that's something, we know now it's PDF with a theme. We found a suspicious method in jRuby. It's a matter of making a path between those 2...

> So this arises two questions in my mind: This is a research story more than anything 💡 My first idea was creating a snapshot around `RubyGemsPreloader::preloadRequiredLibraries` which parses the...

Another article on the topic for reference https://openliberty.io/blog/2023/09/26/spring-boot-3-instant-on.html

Another article on the topic https://spring.io/blog/2023/10/16/runtime-efficiency-with-spring. Nothing relevant though, only interesting to see that it's being adopted, even if in early builds.

> Is asciidoctorj-diagram-2.1.2.jar obsolete? Latest asciidoctorj-diagram is 2.2.1, can you try with it? IntelliJ preview works fine and since it uses AsciidoctorJ at least we know it's possible.  >...

Curious, a simple program as shown below is fine, but indeed v2.5.2 cli fails. I'll will continue looking into it later. ```java public static void main(String[] args) { Asciidoctor asciidoctor...