Pivotal Certified Spring Enterprise Integration Specialist Exam

CHAPTER 9

Spring Batch

So far our focus has been tailored toward enterprise technologies, which process requests or messages from upstream applications. Such abstractions are crucial for handling real-time processing of a small amount of data, mostly representing one action against our enterprise system. But real-world enterprises also need to perform background tasks, whereby an often large amount of data needs to be processed, migrated, copied, or converted from one system to another on a regular basis.

Such processing is often referred to as batch processing, because data is processed in large amounts that usually can’t fit into memory or ...