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Restricting the scope of META-INF/native-image configs

Motivation

To allow native-image users and library vendors to add native-image configuration data to their projects/libraries GraalVM native-image supports adding native-image configuration files into resource location META-INF/native-image.

This is described in detail in https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/docs/reference-manual/native-image/BuildConfiguration.md

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Module system implementation - state and implications

Currently supported module-related native-image options:

$ native-image --help

GraalVM native-image building tool

This tool can be used to generate an image that contains ahead-of-time compiled Java code.