# spring-attic/spring-native

Spring Native is now superseded by Spring Boot 3 official native support

Repository: https://github.com/spring-attic/spring-native
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/spring-native
Homepage: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/native-image.html
Language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: spring, spring-boot, graalvm, serverless, native
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-02-23T09:44:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2554, "days_push": 1287, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived, no_readme
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2699, forks 343 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:11.331247+00:00)

## What it is
Spring Native was a Spring Boot add-on providing ahead-of-time compilation of Spring applications into GraalVM native images for faster startup and lower memory use. It has been superseded by the official native support built into Spring Boot 3 and is now archived in the spring-attic organization.

## Use cases
- compile spring boot app to graalvm native image
- reduce spring boot startup time and memory footprint
- deploy spring apps as serverless functions
- build native executables from java spring applications
- containerize spring boot with native image buildpacks

## When to choose
- you are pinned to Spring Boot 2.x and need GraalVM native image support
- maintaining a legacy project that already depends on spring-native

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - use Spring Boot 3 built-in native support instead
- you need an actively maintained solution
- you are on Spring Boot 3 or later

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: build-tool, compiler, deployment
- domain: developer-tools, backend, cloud-computing
- platform: jvm, windows, cloud
- tags: graalvm, native-image, aot, spring-boot, superseded, serverless, jvm, devops, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- spring-attic/spring-native (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.331247+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:16:07.892552+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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  - site_page: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/community.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:59:17.023373+00:00, sha 8ec071d8c034)
  - site_page: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/documentation.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:59:17.025127+00:00, sha 2147f42f34dd)
  - site_page: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/installing.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:59:17.026761+00:00, sha 0b167b3ec0af)
  - site_page: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/system-requirements.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:59:17.028525+00:00, sha 5694ec253575)
  - site_page: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/upgrading.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:59:17.030094+00:00, sha b5704fff6236)
  - site_page: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/cli/installation.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:59:17.031812+00:00, sha 8ce6a010cf81)
  - site_page: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/gradle-plugin/getting-started.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:59:17.033501+00:00, sha cb3548819b4f)
  - site_page: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/how-to/deployment/installing.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:59:17.035059+00:00, sha 468fac16d4ac)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.