Installing and configuring Spring Batch

Spring automatically saves some metadata (start time, end time, and status) about jobs and their steps in a job repository, which consists of several database tables. In this recipe, we'll create these tables. We will also create a Spring configuration class dedicated to batch jobs.

How to do it…

Here are the steps to install and configure Spring Batch:

1. Add the Maven dependencies for Spring Batch in pom.xml:

   <dependency>
       <groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
       <artifactId>spring-batch-core</artifactId>
       <version>3.0.2.RELEASE</version>
   </dependency>
   
   <dependency>
       <groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId>
       <artifactId>spring-batch-infrastructure</artifactId>
       <version>3.0.2.RELEASE</version>
   </dependency>

2. Add the Maven dependencies for Spring JDBC and Spring Transaction in pom.xml:

   <dependency>
     <groupId>org.springframework...