3.1. The Spring Batch XML vocabulary

Like all projects in the Spring portfolio and the Spring framework itself, Spring Batch provides a dedicated XML vocabulary and namespace to configure its entities. This feature leverages the Spring XML schema–based configuration introduced in Spring 2 and simplifies bean configuration, enabling configurations to operate at a high level by hiding complexity when configuring entities and related Spring-based mechanisms.

In this section, we describe how to use Spring Batch XML and the facilities it offers for batch configuration. Without this vocabulary, we’d need intimate knowledge of Spring Batch internals and entities that make up the batch infrastructure, which can be tedious and complex to configure.