Merge branch '3.5.x'

Closes gh-47621

Author: mhalbritter

core/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/system/JavaVersion.java

@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
 import java.util.SortedSet;
 import java.util.concurrent.Future;
 
+import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;
+
+import org.springframework.aot.hint.RuntimeHints;
+import org.springframework.aot.hint.RuntimeHintsRegistrar;
 import org.springframework.util.ClassUtils;
 
 /**
@@ -96,8 +100,11 @@ public enum JavaVersion {
 
 	private final boolean available;
 
+	private final Class<?> versionSpecificClass;
+
 	JavaVersion(String name, Class<?> versionSpecificClass, String versionSpecificMethod, Class<?>... paramTypes) {
 		this.name = name;
+		this.versionSpecificClass = versionSpecificClass;
 		this.available = ClassUtils.hasMethod(versionSpecificClass, versionSpecificMethod, paramTypes);
 	}
 
@@ -139,4 +146,15 @@ public boolean isOlderThan(JavaVersion version) {
 		return compareTo(version) < 0;
 	}
 
+	static class Hints implements RuntimeHintsRegistrar {
+
+		@Override
+		public void registerHints(RuntimeHints hints, @Nullable ClassLoader classLoader) {
+			for (JavaVersion javaVersion : JavaVersion.values()) {
+				hints.reflection().registerType(javaVersion.versionSpecificClass);
+			}
+		}
+
+	}
+
 }

core/spring-boot/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/aot.factories

@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ org.springframework.boot.logging.log4j2.Log4J2RuntimeHints,\
 org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackRuntimeHints,\
 org.springframework.boot.logging.structured.ElasticCommonSchemaProperties$ElasticCommonSchemaPropertiesRuntimeHints,\
 org.springframework.boot.logging.structured.GraylogExtendedLogFormatProperties$GraylogExtendedLogFormatPropertiesRuntimeHints,\
-org.springframework.boot.logging.structured.StructuredLoggingJsonProperties$StructuredLoggingJsonPropertiesRuntimeHints
+org.springframework.boot.logging.structured.StructuredLoggingJsonProperties$StructuredLoggingJsonPropertiesRuntimeHints,\
+org.springframework.boot.system.JavaVersion$Hints
 
 org.springframework.beans.factory.aot.BeanFactoryInitializationAotProcessor=\
 org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationPropertiesBeanFactoryInitializationAotProcessor,\