Friday, November 9, 2007

Is Spring Batch Vaporware?

I tried to figure out what Spring Batch can do for a customer. To my surprise I have not found a single source of practical use. No examples that made sense to me. Just a bounch of weird interfaces and some illustrations at the very high level. Could it be that Spring Batch is just Vaporware? That no one really has an idea what it should finally become? Announcements that went out a bit too early? Something like that?

1 comment:

Andy Latham said...

Hi Oliver,

I stubmled accross your post as I was having exactly the same problems you were facing. I was unable to find anything practical that I could use to get going with SB.

Anyway, I've just found a load of samples in the Spring Batch Subversion repositiry which look pretty useful:

https://springframework.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/springframework/spring-batch/trunk/samples

If I get around to it I might blog some intructions on a Spring Batch 'Hello World' - assuming I can actually figure it all out :-D

Cheers,
-Andy