My understanding is that Graal is doing whole-application compilation, so the dependent jars will be compiled. Reflection is an issue that they have a work aro

My understanding is that Graal is doing whole-application compilation, so the dependent jars will be compiled. Reflection is an issue that they have a work around for. There's a good article illustrating various issues [1] in the case of netty written by one of the graal team. (There you'll see an example of a reflection configuration file) [1] https://medium.com/graalvm/instant-netty-startup-using-graalvm-native-image-generation-ed6f14ff7692 https://medium.com/graalvm/instant-netty-startup-using-graal...