binary distribution: graalvm support (native-image)

[avelino]

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What Happened?

We have a problem generating binaries with graalvm/native-image with the implementation of issue #152 in PR #153 - it's a simple implementation and graalvm has stopped working and we can't identify the real reason why it's not generating the binary (working correctly).

the "feature" (binary distribution) has been removed, but it is an important feature for the long-term "success" of the product, so we need to implement it in the future.

Reproduce the Bug

... it's not an execution bug, so I'm not describing it step by step

Expected Behavior

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Version and environment information

#153
for implementing excel support (xlsx)

Are you willing to submit a PR? If you know how to fix the bug.

• I'm willing to submit a PR (Thank you!)
• Improve build pipeline (jar and native-image) #154

[rafaeldelboni]

Hey I was reading this issue and I think the problem is with the newly added lib dk.ative/docjure it heavily relies on org.apache.poi/poi in which uses a lot of reflections and this can be hard to graalvm tree shake detect and add the dynamically executed classes in the build as you can see in this issue.

There are two ways of fixing this, one is find a lib that does what docjure does and is more graalvm friendly or use graalvm's tracing agent to detect all the classes being used as reflections and generate the config files.