So, how does Native Image know what is unnecessary in Java or Spring Boot? Native Image looks at your source code and determines all the reachable code — that you can link by invocation or usage ...

Drothbohm reiterated other pillars of these releases: JDK 17 as the new baseline, out-of-the-box support for Native Java with GraalVM in Spring Boot ... and GraalVM native images for optimizing ...