Spring 3 enables the ABILITY to configure applications using JAVA INSTEAD of XML and from Spring Batch 2.2.0, batch jobs can be configured using the same java config.

There are 2 components for the java based configuration:

the @EnableBatchConfiguration annotation and two builders.

@EnableBatchProcessing provides a base configuration for building batch jobs.

The CORE interface for this configuration is the BatchConfigurer. The default implementation provides the beans to be autowired such as JobRepository, JobLauncher.

Spring 3 enables the ability to configure applications using java instead of XML and from Spring Batch 2.2.0, batch jobs can be configured using the same java config.

There are 2 components for the java based configuration:

the @EnableBatchConfiguration annotation and two builders.

@EnableBatchProcessing provides a base configuration for building batch jobs.

The core interface for this configuration is the BatchConfigurer. The default implementation provides the beans to be autowired such as JobRepository, JobLauncher.