Empower your Spring-Applications with Python-Features on GraalVM

Johannes Link - Exxeta

GraalVM is mainly known for its native image-compiler. But it provides a second feature: Running languages like Python and JavaScript side-by-side with JVM-languages in a single program. So we can mix Java and Python in our Spring Boot-application like we’re mixing Java and Kotlin! In this session we will have a deepdive into GraalVM to understand how those different languages are working together. I will demonstrate how to implement a service using Data Science-packages in Python and inject it as Bean in Spring Boot. We will also discover how to set up a suitable Dockerfile and write test for our code. Finally I will discuss possible use cases for so called “polyglot” applications and next steps in their development.