Spring Integration and Spring Batch
Mark Lui, Mario Gray, Andy Chan, Josh Long · Apress eBooks · 2011
Today’s applications can be described in terms of the frameworks they use—web applications use web frameworks, service tiers use remoting and persistence frameworks (such as ORMs and Spring’s remoting hierarchy), messaging applications use messaging frameworks, and so on. Often, however, there is another type of application that sits in all these layers and handles bulk operations—operations that deal with large amounts of data, such as data loading, exporting, synchronizing. Bulk processing, or batch processing, is a common requirement for most applications, both in the initial setup and the ongoing maintenance. The only thing most batch processing applications have in common, however, is the manipulation of large amounts of data; how they get the data, where it’s written, and what must be done to adapt it all tend to be unique. Spring Batch provides a very flexible, expressive way to deal with large amounts of data. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.