Batch Applications for Java Platform 1.0
The Batch Applications API for the Java Platform 1.0 was developed under JSR 352. This section just gives you an overview of the API. The complete document specification (for more information) can be downloaded from http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr352/index.html.
What is batch processing?
According to the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, a batch is a group of things or people dealt with at the same time or considered similar in type. And a process is a series of actions that you take in order to achieve a result. Based on these two definitions, we can say that batch processing is a series of repetitive actions on a large amount of data in order to achieve a result. Given the large amounts of data that it has to deal with, batch processing is often used for end of day, month, period, and year processing.
The following is a short list of domains where you can use batch processing:
Data import/export from/to XML or CSV files
Accounting...
