Spring Batch - Environment

In this chapter, we will explain how to set Spring Batch environment in Eclipse IDE. Before proceeding with the installation, ensure that you have installed Eclipse in your system. If not, download and install Eclipse in your system.

For more information on Eclipse, please refer our Eclipse Tutorial.

Setting Spring Batch on Eclipse

Follow the steps given below to set Spring Batch environment on Eclipse.

Step 1 − Install Eclipse and open a New Project as shown in the following screenshot.

Step 2 − Create a Sample Spring Batch project as shown below.

Step 3 − Right-click on the project and convert it into a Maven project as shown below. Once you convert it into Maven project, it will give you a Pom.xml where you need to mention the required dependencies. Thereafter, the jar files of those will be automatically downloaded into your project.

Step 4 − Now, in the pom.xml of the project, copy and paste the following content (dependencies for spring batch application) and refresh the project.

<project xmlns = "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
   xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
   xsi:schemaLocation = "http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
   http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> 
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> 
   <groupId>com.howcodex</groupId> 
   <artifactId>SpringBatchSample</artifactId> 
   <packaging>jar</packaging> 
   <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> 
   <name>SpringBatchExample</name>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>  
 
   <properties> 
      <jdk.version>1.8</jdk.version> 
      <spring.version>4.3.8.RELEASE</spring.version> 
      <spring.batch.version>3.0.7.RELEASE</spring.batch.version> 
      <mysql.driver.version>5.1.25</mysql.driver.version> 
      <junit.version>4.11</junit.version> 
   </properties>  
   
   <dependencies> 
      <!-- Spring Core --> 
      <dependency> 
         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> 
         <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId> 
         <version>${spring.version}</version> 
      </dependency>  
      
      <!-- Spring jdbc, for database --> 
      <dependency> 
         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> 
         <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId> 
         <version>${spring.version}</version> 
      </dependency>  
      
      <!-- Spring XML to/back object --> 
      <dependency> 
         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> 
         <artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId> 
         <version>${spring.version}</version> 
      </dependency>  
   
      <!-- MySQL database driver --> 
      <dependency> 
         <groupId>mysql</groupId> 
         <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
         <version>${mysql.driver.version}</version> 
      </dependency>  
  
      <!-- Spring Batch dependencies --> 
      <dependency> 
         <groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId> 
         <artifactId>spring-batch-core</artifactId> 
         <version>${spring.batch.version}</version> 
      </dependency> 
  
      <dependency> 
         <groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId> 
         <artifactId>spring-batch-infrastructure</artifactId> 
         <version>${spring.batch.version}</version> 
      </dependency>  
  
      <!-- Spring Batch unit test --> 
      <dependency> 
         <groupId>org.springframework.batch</groupId> 
         <artifactId>spring-batch-test</artifactId> 
         <version>${spring.batch.version}</version> 
      </dependency>  
  
      <!-- Junit --> 
      <dependency> 
         <groupId>junit</groupId> 
         <artifactId>junit</artifactId> 
         <version>${junit.version}</version> 
         <scope>test</scope> 
      </dependency> 
   </dependencies> 
 
   <build> 
      <finalName>spring-batch</finalName> 
      <plugins> 
         <plugin> 
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> 
            <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.9</version> 
            <configuration> 
               <downloadSources>true</downloadSources> 
               <downloadJavadocs>false</downloadJavadocs> 
            </configuration> 
         </plugin> 
      
         <plugin> 
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> 
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> 
            <version>2.3.2</version> 
            <configuration> 
               <source>${jdk.version}</source> 
               <target>${jdk.version}</target> 
            </configuration> 
         </plugin> 
      </plugins> 
   </build> 
</project>     

Finally, if you observe the Maven dependencies, you can observe that all the required jar files have been downloaded.