RedHat Mandrel Makes Java Native
After playing with Java native stuff, one thing has become clear to me that is not general purpose technology where one can take existing Java application and make it native. It will not work even for apps that one write while choosing any library from vast Java ecosystem.<p>Framework vendors are betting on fact that most Java apps are HTTP/ORM/JSON plus metrics and security etc. So if framework provide transitive closure of these libraries and provide configuration to compile native, it will work.<p>For my purpose it does not work because I have many more dependencies which do not fit in above framework. Also I prefer to write my code directly with JDK and external libraries without any of these framework.