Spring Batch in Action

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

1. Background

Chapter 1. Introducing Spring Batch

1.1. What are batch applications?

1.2. Meet Spring Batch

1.2.1. Robustness and reliability

1.2.2. Scaling strategies

1.3. Introducing the case study

1.3.1. The online store application

1.3.2. Why build an online store with batch jobs?

1.3.3. Why use batch processes?

1.3.4. The import product use case

1.4. Reading and writing the product data

1.4.1. Anatomy of the read-write step

1.4.2. Reading a flat file

1.4.3. Implementing a database item writer

1.4.4. Configuring a database item writer

1.4.5. Configuring the read-write step

1.5. Decompressing ...