[maven-plugin] Ability to use the native-image from the docker image

[nielsbasjes]

I write open source software and I would like others to be able to build my software as easily as possible.

With maven (and similar gradle) you automatically get the right versions of the build plugins needed to build the software.

At this time building a native image requires installing the right version of the native-image application.

Key thing is that a container image is already available with the same tool.

https://github.com/graalvm/container/pkgs/container/native-image-community

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to have an option in the native image maven plugin (and I think adding the same to gradle makes sense too) where I can configure it to use a specific version of the native-image executable which is then run using the locally installed container runtime (i.e. docker).

The effect is that docker must be present and there is no longer a need to manually install the exact version of the native-image tool.

[linghengqian]

• Just a quick aside regarding Replace use of gcr.io/distroless/java-base-debian12 with the Docker Image on Docker Hub or Oracle Container Registry graalvm-demos#305 , I personally don't like using gcr.io/distroless/base-debian12:latest or gcr.io/distroless/java-base-debian12:latest as the base container for running the graalvm native image. It would be nice if Docker Hub or GHCR had a distroless container alternative.
• Of course, I've used gcr.io/distroless/java-base-debian12:latest in places like https://github.com/apache/shardingsphere/blob/master/distribution/proxy-native/Dockerfile-linux-dynamic .