After this refresh scope issue was fixed, I was able to get passed the error with a native build but if I tried to build and run the aot enabled jar in java, it didn't work, but it worked in a maven reproducer project. I believe the issue has to do with the classpath in the gradle produced jar. I think the maven plugin puts aot files in BOOT-INF/classes (before the jars) and the gradle plugin adds a jar projectname-aot.jar but it is listed last in the classpath.idx file.

I have a reproducer project that can be built with gradle and maven here: https://github.com/hdeadman/spring-native-reproducer

You can see the maven build and gradle build in the Github Actions workflow or you can run ./test-maven.sh and ./test-gradle.sh to see the problem locally. The gradle built jar doesn't start up b/c some AOT code doesn't override the regular code.

A similar problem was fixed for tests by this issue: #1272 fixed by eba6bc4