I did some work to compare the performance of Camel Quarkus and Spring native one months ago. see [1] and I agree that the easiest way is to use the native-agent to generate the native configuration files.
[1] https://zhfeng.github.io/2021/02/04/comparison-camel-quarkus-and-camel-spring-boot-graalvm-native.html On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 8:22 PM Omar Al-Safi <o...@oalsafi.com> wrote: > Hello Camelers, > > Currently Spring Native is in the Beta phase > <https://spring.io/blog/2021/03/11/announcing-spring-native-beta>. Since > it > is already in Beta, I thought it would be nice to explore how this can be > integrated into camel-spring-boot when it is officially released. > > Currently, you can actually already compile and run an existing using > camel-spring-boot route using Spring Native AOT plugin and native-image. > However, what it needs to be done, is that, you will need to supply the > type hints that are needed for native-image AOT compiler manually or use > the native-agent to generate hints based on the integration tests. > > Moving forward based on my small research, I think it will make sense if > these hints are already included in the camel-spring-boot starters, for > example the included Kafka clients hints > < > https://github.com/spring-projects-experimental/spring-native/blob/master/spring-native-configuration/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/annotation/KafkaHints.java > > > and therefore it will allow seamless experience to compile and run > camel-spring-boot routes natively without supplying any extra type hints > that are related to Camel when running in native mode. > > How to do it, here are some options that I could think of (please feel free > to suggest any other ideas): > - Create a maven plugin to camel-spring-boot to generate type hints for > Camel core packages. > - Add needed type hints for each component starter, this is going to be a > manual process, similar to camel-quarkus process. > > Another idea is use to native-agent to generate the needed hints for the > AOT compiler during the integration test, although this is the easiest way > to do it, however it can be unreliable due to the fact that > integration tests may not cover all the aspects of the components and thus > missing important info that needed for the AOT compiler. > > > What do you think? Any other ideas? > > > Regards, > -- > Omar Al-Safi > oals...@apache.org > https://blog.oalsafi.com >