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I will start off with explaining how spring batch works, provide a high level overview of components and component lifecycle. In the second article I will provide code examples and the problems I encountered when working with spring batch.
Many applications within the enterprise domain require bulk processing such as month-end calculation, notices or correspondence, integration of information that is received from internal and external systems that typically requires formatting, validation, and processing in a transactional manner into the system of record.
Spring batch is a lightweight framework designed to enable the development of robust batch applications vital for daily operations of enterprise systems. Spring batch provides reusable functions that are essential in processing large volumes of records, including logging/tracing, transaction management, job processing statistics, job restart, skip and resource management.
Spring batch Architecture
Batch Core contains the core runtime classes necessary to launch and control a batch job. It includes implementations of JobLauncher, Job, and Step
