Pro Spring Integration

CHAPTER 17

Spring Integration and Spring Batch

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 ...