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GraalVM native-image configuration for Akka

GraalVM allows JVM libraries to include configuration for native-image in their JAR artifacts. See this blog post for more details.

Akka does not do that (yet) so this repo publishes artifacts that can be used for building Akka projects with native-image without supplying the whole configuration in the project itself.

graal-akka-actor

This artifact provides reflection configuration for akka-actor (based on previous work by jrudolph) module and also substitutions to make Akka's default scheduler and Scala 2.13's Statics.releaseFence work with native-image.

"com.github.vmencik" %% "graal-akka-actor" % graalAkkaVersion

graal-akka-stream

This artifact provides reflection configuration for akka-stream module.

"com.github.vmencik" %% "graal-akka-stream" % graalAkkaVersion

graal-akka-http

This artifact provides reflection configuration for akka-http and also enables support for http and https protocols.

"com.github.vmencik" %% "graal-akka-http" % graalAkkaVersion

graal-akka-slf4j

This artifact provides reflection configuration for akka-slf4j module.

"com.github.vmencik" %% "graal-akka-slf4j" % graalAkkaVersion

graal-akka-remote

To use Akka Remote with Graal:

Usage

Note that the configuration provided by these artifacts is not everything you will need to build your Akka project with native-image.

See the akka-graal-native repository for an example of Akka HTTP service compiled into native binary. There you can see the rest of the configuration for native-image and also configuration for Akka itself that makes things easier.

Compatibility

Current version of the artifacts was tested with:

The reflection configuration and the substitutions are tightly coupled with Akka internals and will likely need to be updated for future versions.

The artifacts are cross-published for Scala 2.13 and Scala 2.12.