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by Scarbutt 1328 days ago
My experience has involved zero headaches

How? most libs use reflection.
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kasperni 1328 days ago
GraalVM comes with its own JIT the Graal Compiler [1] which I believe was what metadat was talking about. You are probably thinking about the native image generation which can cause issues with reflection and other dynamic constructs.

[1] https://www.graalvm.org/22.3/reference-manual/java/compiler/

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cogman10 1328 days ago
Reflection only matters if you are using graal for AOT. It's still a full JVM.
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fniephaus 1328 days ago
Also, reflection is supported in AOT mode. The analysis, however, does require reachability metadata in some cases. In the best case, libraries provide and maintain appropriate configuration for this. Reachability metadata can also be shared via https://github.com/oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata.
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the-alchemist 1327 days ago
There's two pieces to GraalVM:

1. The new JIT

2. The Native Image, AOT

Reflection is an issue for (2), not (1).

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