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** Spring Boot GraalVM Native Image **

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Getting Started

Requirements:

Git: 2.49.0
Spring Boot: 3.5.0
Maven: 3.9+
Java GraalVM: 24
Docker Desktop: Tested on 4.42.0

Install GraalVM JDK 24

Using SDKMAN (Recommended)

sdk install java 24.0.2-graal

Install GraalVM JDK 24
Set GRAALVM_HOME as environment path.

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/deepaksorthiya/spring-boot-graalvm-native.git
cd spring-boot-graalvm-native

Build Project Using Native Profile:

./mvnw -Pnative native:compile

It will generate a spring-boot-graalvm-native in target folder.

Run Project:

./target/spring-boot-graalvm-native

Build Docker Image(docker should be running):

Check pom.xml for native container image config

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <image>
            <name>deepaksorthiya/${project.artifactId}:latest</name>
            <publish>false</publish>
            <createdDate>${maven.build.timestamp}</createdDate>
            <builder>bellsoft/buildpacks.builder:musl</builder>
            <env>
                <BP_NATIVE_IMAGE>true</BP_NATIVE_IMAGE>
                <BP_JVM_VERSION>24</BP_JVM_VERSION>
            </env>
        </image>
        <layers>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
        </layers>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

./mvnw clean -Pnative spring-boot:build-image -DskipTests

docker build --progress=plain -f Dockerfile.native -t deepaksorthiya/spring-boot-graalvm-native .

Running On Docker

docker run -p 8080:8080 --name spring-boot-graalvm-native deepaksorthiya/spring-boot-graalvm-native

Testing

./mvnw -PnativeTest test

http://localhost:8080

http://localhost:8080/h2-console

Reference Documentation

For further reference, please consider the following sections:

• Spring Boot GraalVM
• GraalVM Oracle Docs
• GraalVM Native Dockerfile
• Build Java Apps with Paketo Buildpacks
• GraalVM Native Image Support
• Configure AOT settings in Build Plugin
• Create an OCI image
• Spring Boot Actuator
• Spring Web

Guides

The following guides illustrate how to use some features concretely:

• Building a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot Actuator
• Building a RESTful Web Service
• Serving Web Content with Spring MVC
• Building REST services with Spring
• Accessing Data with JPA
• Validation
• Accessing data with MySQL