3.2. Configuring jobs and steps

As described in chapter 2, the central entities in Spring Batch are jobs and steps, which describe the details of batch processing. The use case entails defining what the batch must do and how to organize its processing. For our examples, we use the online store case study. After defining the job, we progressively extend it by adding internal processing.

We focus here on how to configure the core entities of batch processes; we also examine their relationships at the configuration level. Let’s first look at the big picture.