Spring-Batch Tutorial Getting Started Guide

Agenda  Software prerequisites  Creating new batch application  Setting up database  Running a job

Prerequisites  JDK 1.4 or later  Maven 2

Checkout & install the framework  svn checkout springframework.svn.sourceforge.net/ svnroot/springframework/ spring-batch/trunk spring-batch  cd spring-batch  mvn install

Download & Install framework  Download snapshot from batch/snapshots.html  Manually install to local maven repository: mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.springframework.batch -DartifactId=spring-batch-execution -Dversion=M3-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file

Create a batch application  Use the spring-batch-app archetype mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.springframework.batch -DarchetypeArtifactId=spring-batch-app -DarchetypeVersion=1.0-SNAPSHOT -DgroupId=org.myorganization -DartifactId=my-app-name

Setup the database  Create a schema using SQL script from /src/main/resources/db-schema-scripts  Edit JDBC connection properties in /src/main/resource/batch-jdbc.properties

Run a job  cd path/to/my-app-name  mvn test  mvn exec:exec

Look behind the curtains  src/main/resources/helloWorldJob.xml contains the job configuration  pom.xml contains the maven’s exec plugin configuration which launches the job with appropriately configured classpath