This project is designed to demonstrate:

• Spring Framework Kotlin support
• Spring MVC functional web APIs
• Leveraging Kotlin serialization
• Gradle Kotlin DSL configuration
• Spring Boot GraalVM native images support

This sample does not use functional bean registration for 3 main reasons:

• This is not yet well supporting with native/AOT, see spring-framework#29555 related issue.
• Spring Fu development is frozen while the Spring team figures out a better option to provide first class support for functional configuration well integrated in Spring Boot, see spring-boot#8115 related issue.
• Spring AOT transforms automatically annotation-based JavaConfig configuration model to functional bean registration executed at runtime.

• Build the project and run tests with ./gradlew build
• Run the application with ./gradlew bootRun
• Create a native executable with ./gradlew nativeCompile then run build/native/nativeCompile/spring-kotlin-functional executable (add .exe on Windows)
• Build an optimized native container with ./gradlew bootBuildImage

AOT generation happens when either id("org.graalvm.buildtools.native") or id("org.springframework.boot.aot") plugins are activated.

If you want to leverage to speedup the application startup on the JVM:

• Unpack the executable JAR with jar -xf myapp.jar as documented here
• Run the java command with -Dspring.aot.enabled=true, for example java -Dspring.aot.enabled=true -cp BOOT-INF/classes:BOOT-INF/lib/* com.example.MyApplication