demo-aot-native

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= AOT and Native with Spring Boot 3

This repository provides a basic web application using Spring Boot 3 that can be built as a native image using GraalVM. It showcases how reflection and resources loading can be configured using RuntimeHints.

This sample can be seen in action in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTn8SHz5Ux8[Ahead Of Time and Native in Spring Boot 3.0].

== Building

To build this demo application, you need GraalVM on your path. If you use SDKMan, invoke the following:

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sdk install java 22.2.r17-nik

See also https://www.graalvm.org/java/quickstart/[GraalVM Quickstart]

=== Maven

To build the application with Maven, you need to enable the native profile:

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$ ./mvnw -Pnative package

=== Gradle

To build the application with Gradle, you need to make sure that the org.graalvm.buildtools.native plugin is enabled.

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$ ./gradlew nativeCompile

== Testing

You can run your unit tests in a native image to verify that your application and its dependency work as expected.

=== Maven

To run your tests in a native image with Maven, you need to enable the nativeTest profile:

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$ ./mvnw -PnativeTest test

=== Gradle

To run your tests in a native image with Gradle, you need to make sure that the org.graalvm.buildtools.native plugin is enabled.

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$ ./gradlew nativeTest