This is the third post about the new Java based configuration features in Spring Batch 2.2. In the first post I compared the two configuration styles on a non-trivial batch job reading from a file and writing to a database. I used a very simple infrastructure setup with an In-Memory-Database and a DataSourceTransactionManager, and I didn’t have any property files to read configurable data from. This post is about adding another infrastructure configuration for a production environment.
In future posts I will talk about job inheritance, modular configurations and partitioning and multi-threaded step, everything regarding Java based configuration, of course. You can find the JavaConfig code examples on Github.
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This is the second post about the new Java based configuration features in Spring Batch 2.2. In the first post I compared the two configuration styles on a non-trivial batch job reading from a file and writing to a database. … Continue reading →