Testing and compiling Native Images

Now, it is time to try out the tools for testing and building Native Images!

The following tools will be covered in this section:

• Running the tracing agent
• Executing native tests
• Creating a Native Image for the current OS
• Creating a Native Image as a Docker image

Since the first three tools require that the GraalVM and its Native Image compiler are installed locally, we must install them first. Next, we will go through the tools one by one.

Installing GraalVM and its Native Image compiler

If you want to try out native tests, the tracing agent, or the native compiler without using Docker, you must first install the GraalVM JDK together with the Native Image compiler.

It can be done by the following steps:

1. To install GraalVM, SDKman (https://sdkman.io) will be used. If not already installed, it can be installed with the following commands:

   curl -s "https://get.sdkman...