SpringBoot Spring native: Built image fails to run straight out of the box

Hi,

I haven't touched spring-native for a few years, and it seems to be broken even more than it used to be.

While trying to solve other related problems, I tried to run a demo app from scratch, which failed drastically.

Set up: 1. start.spring.io 2. maven, boot 3.1.0, java, jar, 17 3. dependencies: graalvm, configuration processor, devtools, lombok, jpa, validation

Outcome: 1. Jar runs fine 2. Native image doesn't:

 :: Spring Boot ::                (v3.1.0)

15:17:49.314 [main] ERROR org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication -- Application run failed
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not find class [com.example.demo.DemoApplication__ApplicationContextInitializer]
    at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.resolveClassName(ClassUtils.java:334)
    at org.springframework.context.aot.AotApplicationContextInitializer.instantiateInitializer(AotApplicationContextInitializer.java:80)
    at org.springframework.context.aot.AotApplicationContextInitializer.initialize(AotApplicationContextInitializer.java:71)
    at org.springframework.context.aot.AotApplicationContextInitializer.lambda$forInitializerClasses$0(AotApplicationContextInitializer.java:61)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.applyInitializers(SpringApplication.java:606)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.prepareContext(SpringApplication.java:386)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:310)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1305)
    at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1294)
    at com.example.demo.DemoApplication.main(DemoApplication.java:10)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.example.demo.DemoApplication__ApplicationContextInitializer
    at java.base@17.0.7/java.lang.Class.forName(DynamicHub.java:1132)
    at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:284)
    at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.resolveClassName(ClassUtils.java:324)
    ... 9 common frames omitted

I tried using spring-core 6.0.10-SNAPSHOT as has been suggested here, with no luck. I have published the sources so you can save some time to reproduce the issue: here

Comment From: Haarolean

Related: #32918, but with java, not kotlin.

Comment From: wilkinsona

It sounds like your application hasn't been AOT-processed, perhaps because it was not built with the correct command. Did you use ./mvnw native:compile -Pnative as described in the HELP.md file of the project generated by start.spring.io?

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Comment From: Haarolean

Hi Andy, thanks for your swift reply. Indeed, I tried to rebuild the image again, the same way with mvn clean package -Pnative, but couldn't reproduce this anymore. Got a lot of frustration with trying to get native images working, probably haven't paid enough attention after fighting with this for days. Thanks again!