Chapter 5. Job Repository and Metadata
When you look into writing a batch process, the ability to execute processes without a UI in a stand-alone manner isn't that hard. When you dig into Spring Batch, the execution of a job amounts to nothing more than using an implementation of Spring's TaskExecutor to run a separate task. You don't need Spring Batch to do that.
Where things get interesting, however, is when things go wrong. If your batch job is running and an error occurs, how do you recover? How does your job know where it was in processing when the error occurred, and what should happen when the job is restarted? State management is an important part of processing large volumes of data. This is one of the key features that Spring Batch brings ...
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