spring-boot-maven-plugin process-aot goal does not find package-private main method

[mvitz]

The release notes of Spring Boot 3.5.7 mentions within #47311 that Spring Boot supports package-private main methods, which is true.
But unfortunately, when using the process-aot goal of the spring-boot-maven-plugin the following exception occurs:

13907 [INFO] --- spring-boot:3.5.7:process-aot (process-aot) @ XXX ---
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: xxx.Application.main([Ljava.lang.String;)
	at org.springframework.util.function.ThrowingSupplier.get(ThrowingSupplier.java:64)
	at org.springframework.util.function.ThrowingSupplier.get(ThrowingSupplier.java:46)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.withHook(SpringApplication.java:1461)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplicationAotProcessor$AotProcessorHook.run(SpringApplicationAotProcessor.java:109)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplicationAotProcessor.prepareApplicationContext(SpringApplicationAotProcessor.java:60)
	at org.springframework.context.aot.ContextAotProcessor.doProcess(ContextAotProcessor.java:83)
	at org.springframework.context.aot.ContextAotProcessor.doProcess(ContextAotProcessor.java:49)
	at org.springframework.context.aot.AbstractAotProcessor.process(AbstractAotProcessor.java:83)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplicationAotProcessor.main(SpringApplicationAotProcessor.java:80)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: xxx.Application.main([Ljava.lang.String;)
	at java.base/java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:2166)
	at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplicationAotProcessor.lambda$prepareApplicationContext$0(SpringApplicationAotProcessor.java:61)

Because the launcher and the build of the executable jar works It would be nice to add aot support, too.
Thanks.

[namest504]

I'd like to work on this issue.

Could you please assign it to me?

I believe the fix is to use getDeclaredMethod().

[snicoll]

@namest504 thanks for the offer but I've started to look at it.

[namest504]

@snicoll
No problem. Thanks for letting me know!