Spring Batch in Action

Chapter 5. Reading data

This chapter covers

• Reading input data
• Reading from files
• Reading from databases
• Reading from Java Message Service and other sources
• Implementing custom readers

In the previous two chapters, we concentrated on configuring and launching batch jobs. It’s now time to dig into the features at the heart of batch processes. As described in chapter 2, Spring Batch provides types for batch processes based on the concepts of job and step. A job uses a tasklet to implement chunk processing. Chunk-oriented processing allows jobs to implement efficiently the most common batch processing tasks: reading, processing, and writing.

We focus here on the first step of this process, reading. We describe general concepts and types ...