Published onJune 9, 2026Spring Boot Native Images with GraalVM: Build, Test, Measure, and DecideGraalVMSpring-BootJava-25Native-ImageAOTDockerPerformance-TestingA practical guide to evaluating GraalVM Native Image for a Spring Boot service: build paths, reachability metadata, native tests, container packaging, measurement, and the cases where a regular JVM is still the better choice.