Introducing database to Spring Batch

Until now we have seen Spring batch without its meta data persistence features. When I say meta-data for Spring batch it includes batch related information - a listing of the steps executed, and their audit information, how many items did the framework read/write, did it skip any items, what was the duration of each step executed etc. This meta data is maintained in a database - persistence.

Multiple Steps in a Job

In the previous post we saw how to execute a job with a single step. A job can be composed of multiple steps. So I decided to extend the previous job to include two steps.

1. Step 1 is same as before - read csv -> process -> write to List.
2. Step 2 is read from List -> process -> write to CSV file.

Hello Spring Batch

Batch processing is something that we keep hearing in the enterprise industry. Most software projects will at some point require that certain tasks happen in the background on certain scheduled times. Such offline tasks constitute batch jobs. Send reminder emails to clients, sending job alerts to prospective candidates, fetching transactions from financial systems and loading them into analytical systems. Batch always creeps into the picture.