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* User Guide: GraalVM/native-image chapter

Signed-off-by: Maxim Nesen <maxim.nesen@oracle.com>
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</example>
<para>
For more information see javadoc of &jersey.client.InjectionManagerClientProvider;
(and javadoc of &jersey.common.InjectionManagerProvider; which supports common JAX-RS components).
(and javadoc of &lit.jersey.common.InjectionManagerProvider; which supports common JAX-RS components).
</para>
</section>

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T E S T S
-------------------------------------------------------
Running com.example.MyResourceTest
Jan 29, 2021 9:13:20 AM org.glassfish.jersey.test.grizzly.GrizzlyTestContainerFactory$GrizzlyTestContainer <init>
Jan 29, 2021 9:13:20 AM org.glassfish.jersey.test.grizzly.GrizzlyTestContainerFactory$GrizzlyTestContainer
INFO: Creating GrizzlyTestContainer configured at the base URI http://localhost:9998/
Jan 29, 2021 9:13:20 AM org.glassfish.jersey.server.wadl.WadlFeature configure
WARNING: JAXBContext implementation could not be found. WADL feature is disabled.
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
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<!DOCTYPE chapter [<!ENTITY % ents SYSTEM "jersey.ent" > %ents; ]>
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
version="5.0"
xml:lang="en"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook http://docbook.org/xml/5.0/xsd/docbook.xsd
http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink.xsd"
xml:id="graalvm-native-image">
<title>GraalVM native-image generation</title>
<para>
This chapter describes Jersey's compatibility with GraalVM native image. This functionality is available since
Jersey 2.35 and is under development and configuration. For now Jersey provides native image configuration
basics for some modules and example on how to really generate native image for an existing application.
</para>
<section xml:id="supported_modules">
<title>Modules with GraalVM native image support</title>
<para>
Currently Jersey provides basic support for native image generation within following modules:
<literal>jersey-common</literal>,<literal>jersey-server</literal>,<literal>jersey-client</literal>,
<literal>jersey-hk2</literal>.

This support means that most of reflection and resource related settings are extracted into reflect-config
and resource-config JSON files to be used while generating a native image. Those files are included in
the native image generation process automatically (unless some tricky configuration is applied), so there is
no need to include those files manually and/or duplicate their contents in some custom configuration.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="native-image">
<title>HelloWorld native image generation</title>
<para>
The example for the GraalVM native image generation is hidden under examples/helloworld example.
To generate native image there it's required to perform some preliminary steps:
<simplelist>
<member>Download GraalVM at least 20.3.2 version</member>
<member>Set JAVA_HOME to point to that [GraalVM_HOME]</member>
<member>Perform <markup>$JAVA_HOME/bin/gu install native-image</markup> because native-image tool is not bundled within GraalVM itself</member>
<member>Download Jersey examples source codes (preferable some released version like 2.35),
and go to [path_to_jersey_examples]/examples/helloworld</member>
<member>Run <markup>mvn -Pnative-image clean package -DskipTests</markup></member>
</simplelist>
</para>
<para>
If all was correctly performed from previous steps the native image shall be already generated inside the targed folder
of the helloworld example with the name helloworld-native and it's possible to run it by
<programlisting language="bash">target/./helloworld-native</programlisting>
After it's run, console should print our following output:
<screen linenumbering="unnumbered">
"Hello World" Jersey Example App
May 27, 2021 1:37:49 PM org.glassfish.jersey.server.wadl.WadlFeature configure
WARNING: JAX-B API not found . WADL feature is disabled.
May 27, 2021 1:37:49 PM org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.NetworkListener start
INFO: Started listener bound to [localhost:8080]
May 27, 2021 1:37:49 PM org.glassfish.grizzly.http.server.HttpServer start
INFO: [HttpServer] Started.
Application started.
Try out http://localhost:8080/base/helloworld
Stop the application using CTRL+C
</screen>
If you see this, you can open given link in browser and check how application actually works.
In general we are done here and you can use that example to generate native images for your own projects.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="undercover">
<title>What's under the cover</title>
<para>
For the example above the following command line was used:
<programlisting language="bash">
-H:EnableURLProtocols=http,https
--initialize-at-build-time=org.glassfish.jersey.client.internal.HttpUrlConnector
-H:+ReportExceptionStackTraces
--verbose
--no-fallback
--report-unsupported-elements-at-runtime
</programlisting>
This might be useful to generate another native image. It's possible to add another bunch of parameters to the command line
(and put those into the <literal>native-image.properties</literal> file inside of your project). Important parameter here is
--initialize-at-build-time (opposite to --initialize-at-run-time) and --no-fallback which says to the native
image to generate pure native image with everything bundled inside the image and not just fall back wrapper for JDK.
</para>
<para>
Another important aspect for generating the native image is the proper listing of reflection classes (classes that use reflection
in an application). For those needs, there is a native image agent which helps to generate those lists automatically.
In order to generate a list of reflection classes (and JNI classes and resources), it is required to run:
<programlisting language="bash">$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -agentlib:native-image-agent=config-output-dir=[output_location] -jar [app_name].jar</programlisting>
And afterwords, the [output_location] directory will be created with generated lists (in JSON format). Those files can be
included as is into native image generation, but it's very preferable to edit them manually to reduce possible ambiguous classes listings.
</para>
</section>
</chapter>
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<!--
Copyright (c) 2010, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 2010, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0, which is available at
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<xi:include href="custom-di.xml" />
<xi:include href="cdi.xml" />
<xi:include href="spring.xml" />
<xi:include href="graalvm-native-image.xml" />
<xi:include href="test-framework.xml" />
<xi:include href="how-to-build.xml" />
<xi:include href="migration.xml" />
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