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Still an issue. The main problem is for native compilation you have to declare your reflection targets upfront. That can be a headache if your framework doesn't support it.

You can get a large portion of what graal native offers by using AppCDS and compressed object headers.

Here's the latest JEP for all that.

https://openjdk.org/jeps/483

>>cogman+(OP)
Only those reflection targets that are not "visible" from straight forward code. If you have code that accesses the "stringLiteral" field of a class, then it will be auto-registered for you. But if you access it based on user input, then you have to register it manually.

Also, quite a few libraries have metadata now denoting these extra reflection targets.

But nonetheless you are right in general, but depends on your use case.