The Java EE platform is huge, and I must confess I’m not aware of every one of its API. This is also true of the Spring framework, even though I think I know more of Spring than of Java EE. Lately, I was working on the version 10 of the Vaadin framework also known as Vaadin Flow. This version introduces routes. When a path is requested, the Vaadin Servlet displays the component. Routes are created by annotating specific components with the @Route annotation.

I’ve been following GraalVM with a lot of interest. One of the interesting areas is its ability to compile bytecode Ahead-Of-Time, and create a native image. Such images have a lot of advantages, including small size, no dependency on a JRE, etc. However, AOT has some limitations. In particular, the native image executable cannot compile what it doesn’t know about. This post aims to describe how to configure the compilation process when code is using reflection.