Building Native Applications with Spring Boot and GraalVM

Intermediate

5 Lessons

1h 6m

Would you like to learn about efficient Spring Boot native applications built with GraalVM? Then this course is for you!

Pro

Spring Framework core committer

What are GraalVM native images?
Create a Spring Boot native application from scratch!
We provide an in-browser interactive development environment in the course itself, so you don't need to install anything on your own device.

You should be familiar with Java, the JVM ecosystem, and software development in general.
You should be familiar the use of Docker (OCI) container images for local development, and application deployment.
Familiarity with the Spring Boot framework would be helpful, but you'll be able to complete the course even with little Spring and Spring Boot knowledge.

Course Outline

Article

What is Spring Boot native image and how is it related to the JVM and GraalVM?

Article

10m

Build an application from scratch using Spring Boot and GraalVM. Build and run it three different ways!

Lab

15m

How do you migrate an existing Spring Boot application in order to compile it as a native image?

Article

10m

Start with an existing Spring Boot application, and by the end of the Lab, compile it to a native image

Lab

30m