Foreword
The origin of Spring Batch as an open source project goes back to the time when I joined a relatively new and small company called Interface21.[1] Many existing clients, and one big partner (Accenture), had repeatedly run into problems because the open source community lacked such a framework. Every IT project that needed offline processing found that they had to reinvent the basic features of deployment, processing patterns, and reliability. Then, and to this day, these are the unavoidable but necessary features of many environments across a wide range of industries.
1 Interface21 went on to rebrand itself as SpringSource (http://www.springsource.org) before becoming a division of VMware (http://www.vmware.com) in 2009.
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