Spring Batch

About the Tutorial

Spring Batch is a lightweight framework which is used to develop Batch Applications that
are used in Enterprise Applications. This tutorial explains the fundamental concepts of Spring
Batch and shows how you can use it in practical environment.

Audience
This tutorial is particularly going to be useful for all those professionals who are required to
process large volumes of records involving repetitive actions such as transaction management,
job processing statistics, resource management, etc. Spring Batch is a very effective framework
for processing high-volume batch jobs.

Prerequisites
Spring Batch has been built upon Spring Framework, therefore you should have prior exposure
to the features and functions of Spring. In case you are not familiar with Spring Framework,
then you can start here.

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Table of Contents
About the Tutorial ..................................................................................................................................... i

Audience.................................................................................................................................................... i

Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................................. i

Copyright & Disclaimer ............................................................................................................................ i

Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................... ii

1. SPRING BATCH – OVERVIEW.................................................................................... 1

What is Spring Batch .............................................................................................................................. 1

Features of Spring Batch ........................................................................................................................ 1

2. SPRING BATCH – ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................ 3

Setting Spring Batch on Eclipse ............................................................................................................ 3

3. SPRING BATCH ─ ARCHITECTURE .......................................................................... 9

Components of Spring Batch ................................................................................................................. 9

4. SPRING BATCH ─ APPLICATION ............................................................................ 13

5. SPRING BATCH ─ CONFIGURATION ...................................................................... 15

Job .......................................................................................................................................................... 15

Step ......................................................................................................................................................... 16

Chunk...................................................................................................................................................... 16

JobRepository ....................................................................................................................................... 17

JobLauncher .......................................................................................................................................... 17

TransactionManager ............................................................................................................................. 18

DataSource ............................................................................................................................................. 18

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6. SPRING BATCH ─ READERS, WRITERS & PROCESSORS................................... 19

ItemReader ............................................................................................................................................. 19

ItemWriter ............................................................................................................................................... 21

Item Processor ....................................................................................................................................... 21

7. SPRING BATCH ─ BASIC APPLICATION ................................................................ 23

jobConfig.xml ......................................................................................................................................... 23

Context.xml ............................................................................................................................................ 24

Tasklet.java ............................................................................................................................................ 24

App.java .................................................................................................................................................. 25

8. SPRING BATCH ─ XML TO MYSQL ......................................................................... 27

jobConfig.xml ......................................................................................................................................... 29

Context.xml ............................................................................................................................................ 30

CustomItemProcessor.java .................................................................................................................. 31

TutorialFieldSetMapper.java ................................................................................................................ 34

Tutorial.java ........................................................................................................................................... 34

App.java .................................................................................................................................................. 36

9. SPRING BATCH ─ CSV TO XML .............................................................................. 41

jobConfig.xml ......................................................................................................................................... 41

Context.xml ............................................................................................................................................ 43

CustomItemProcessor.java .................................................................................................................. 44

TutorialFieldSetMapper.java ................................................................................................................ 44

Tutorial.java class ................................................................................................................................. 45

App.java .................................................................................................................................................. 47

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10. SPRING BATCH ─ MYSQL TO XML ......................................................................... 51

jobConfig.xml ......................................................................................................................................... 51

Context.xml ............................................................................................................................................ 53

CustomItemProcessor.java .................................................................................................................. 54

TutorialRowMapper.java ....................................................................................................................... 55

Tutorial.java ........................................................................................................................................... 55

App.java .................................................................................................................................................. 57

11. SPRING BATCH ─ MYSQL TO FLAT FILE ............................................................... 61

jobConfig.xml ......................................................................................................................................... 62

Context.xml ............................................................................................................................................ 63

CustomItemProcessor.java .................................................................................................................. 64

TutorialRowMapper.java ....................................................................................................................... 65

Tutorial.java ........................................................................................................................................... 65

App.java .................................................................................................................................................. 66

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 1. Spring Batch – Overview Spring Batch

Batch processing is a processing mode which involves execution of series of automated

complex jobs without user interaction. A batch process handles bulk data and runs for a
long time.

Several Enterprise applications require to process huge data to perform operations

involving:

 Time-based events such as periodic calculations.

 Periodic applications that are processed repetitively over large datasets.

 Applications that deals with processing and validation of the data available in a
transactional manner.

Therefore, batch processing is used in enterprise applications to perform such transactions.

What is Spring Batch

Spring batch is a lightweight framework which is used to develop Batch Applications
that are used in Enterprise Applications.

In addition to bulk processing, this framework provides functions for –

 Including logging and tracing

 Transaction management
 Job processing statistics
 Job restart
 Skip and Resource management

You can also scale spring batch applications using its portioning techniques.

Features of Spring Batch

Following are the notable features of Spring Batch –

 Flexibility: Spring Batch applications are flexible. You simply need to change an
XML file to alter the order of processing in an application.

 Maintainability: Spring Batch applications are easy to maintain. A Spring Batch job
includes steps and each step can be decoupled, tested, and updated, without
effecting the other steps.

 Scalability: Using the portioning techniques, you can scale the Spring Batch
applications. These techniques allow you to –

o Execute the steps of a job in parallel.

o Execute a single thread in parallel.

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 Reliability: In case of any failure, you can restart the job from exactly where it was
stopped, by decoupling the steps.

 Support for multiple file formats: Spring Batch provides support for a large set
of readers and writers such as XML, Flat file, CSV, MYSQL, Hibernate, JDBC, Mongo,
Neo4j, etc.

 Multiple ways to launch a job: You can launch a Spring Batch job using web
applications, Java programs, Command Line, etc.

In addition to these, Spring Batch applications support –

 Automatic retry after failure.

 Tracking status and statistics during the batch execution and after completing the
batch processing.

 To run concurrent jobs.

 Services such as logging, resource management, skip, and restarting the processing.

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 2. Spring Batch – Environment Spring Batch

In this chapter, we will explain how to set Spring Batch environment in Eclipse IDE. Before
proceeding with the installation, ensure that you have installed Eclipse in your system. If
not, download and install Eclipse in your system.

For more information on Eclipse, please refer our Eclipse Tutorial.

Setting Spring Batch on Eclipse

Follow the steps given below to set Spring Batch environment on Eclipse.

Step 1: Install Eclipse and open a New Project as shown in the following screenshot.

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Step 2: Create a Sample Spring Batch project as shown below.

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Step 3: Right-click on the project and convert it into a Maven project as shown below. Once
you convert it into Maven project, it will give you a Pom.xml where you need to mention
the required dependencies. Thereafter, the jar files of those will be automatically
downloaded into your project.

Step4: Now, in the pom.xml of the project, copy and paste the following content
(dependencies for spring batch application) and refresh the project.

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.tutorialspoint</groupId>
<artifactId>SpringBatchSample</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>SpringBatchExample</name>

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<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

<properties>
<jdk.version>1.8</jdk.version>
<spring.version>4.3.8.RELEASE</spring.version>
<spring.batch.version>3.0.7.RELEASE</spring.batch.version>
<mysql.driver.version>5.1.25</mysql.driver.version>
<junit.version>4.11</junit.version>
</properties>

<dependencies>
<!-- Spring Core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Spring jdbc, for database -->

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Spring XML to/back object -->

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!-- MySQL database driver -->

<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>${mysql.driver.version}</version>

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</dependency>

<!-- Spring Batch dependencies -->

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-batch-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.batch.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-batch-infrastructure</artifactId>
<version>${spring.batch.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Spring Batch unit test -->

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-batch-test</artifactId>
<version>${spring.batch.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Junit -->

<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>${junit.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>spring-batch</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.9</version>
<configuration>

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<downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
<downloadJavadocs>false</downloadJavadocs>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>${jdk.version}</source>
<target>${jdk.version}</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Finally, if you observe the Maven dependencies, you can observe that all the required jar
files have been downloaded.

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