Is it possible to compile Hibernate with GraalVM?

Question

My project contains a Hibernate dependency. Just want to compile it with GraalVM. Actually, the compilation went well. But on runtime I have this.

2023-10-26 | 19:13:52.154 [        main] ←[34mINFO ←[0;39m | ←[36m                org.hibernate.Version←[0;39m | HHH000412: Hibernate ORM core version 5.6.14.Final
Exception in thread "main" com.oracle.svm.core.jdk.UnsupportedFeatureError: No classes have been predefined during the image build to load from bytecodes at runtime.
        at org.graalvm.nativeimage.builder/com.oracle.svm.core.util.VMError.unsupportedFeature(VMError.java:121)
        at org.graalvm.nativeimage.builder/com.oracle.svm.core.hub.PredefinedClassesSupport.throwNoBytecodeClasses(PredefinedClassesSupport.java:76)
        at org.graalvm.nativeimage.builder/com.oracle.svm.core.hub.PredefinedClassesSupport.loadClass(PredefinedClassesSupport.java:130)
        at [email protected]/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:280)
        at net.bytebuddy.utility.dispatcher.JavaDispatcher$DynamicClassLoader.invoker(JavaDispatcher.java:1383)
        at net.bytebuddy.utility.dispatcher.JavaDispatcher$InvokerCreationAction.run(JavaDispatcher.java:459)
        at net.bytebuddy.utility.dispatcher.JavaDispatcher$InvokerCreationAction.run(JavaDispatcher.java:452)
       

I tied almost everything, the last step, I updated the hibernate version to one of the GraalVM-library-list

I played around with the native-agent to capture all required proxy-classes without success. Also heard about Quarkus-Framework which integrates and optimizes a lot for GraalVM but this is out-of-scope for me.

--> Has anyone ever managed to get Hibernate running in a native compilation with GraalVM?

Additionaly: I tried hibernate-entitymanager:5.4.10 instead (each time I collected the config files with the native-agent), this leads to

Caused by: org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not get constructor for org.hibernate.persister.entity.SingleTableEntityPersister
        at org.hibernate.persister.internal.PersisterFactoryImpl.createEntityPersister(PersisterFactoryImpl.java:123)
        at org.hibernate.persister.internal.PersisterFactoryImpl.createEntityPersister(PersisterFactoryImpl.java:77)
        at org.hibernate.metamodel.internal.MetamodelImpl.initialize(MetamodelImpl.java:181)
        at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:305)

==> UPDATE!!!<==

• I updated all to the current Hibernate, which was a hassle due to obsolete Criteria-usages, anyhow it worked.

Hibernate has a transitive dependency to byte-buddy, which kills me currently related to the native compilation (@Rafael Winterhalter sorry :-) )

• I tried the experimental feature experimental-class-define-support to get all the necessary information for predefined classes, included it with the -H:PredefinedClassesConfigurationFiles definition.

BUT always still:

Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Defining new classes at runtime is not supported
        at org.graalvm.nativeimage.builder/com.oracle.svm.core.util.VMError.unimplemented(VMError.java:195)
        at [email protected]/java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles$Lookup.defineClass(MethodHandles.java:45)
        at [email protected]/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:580)
        at net.bytebuddy.utility.Invoker$Dispatcher.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at net.bytebuddy.utility.dispatcher.JavaDispatcher$Dispatcher$ForNonStaticMethod.invoke(JavaDispatcher.java:1032)
        at net.bytebuddy.utility.dispatcher.JavaDispatcher$ProxiedInvocationHandler.invoke(JavaDispatcher.java:1162)
        at jdk.proxy4/jdk.proxy4.$Proxy63.defineClass(Unknown Source)
        at net.bytebuddy.dynamic.loading.ClassInjector$UsingLookup.injectRaw(ClassInjector.java:1638)
        ... 36 more 

Has somebody a running sample with byte-buddy (in combination with hibernate) and graalvm compilation?

--> I added a little reproducer here: https://github.com/tonyre/HibernateSampleGraalVM