ItemReader/ItemWriter for parsing flat files with BeanIO

[Kevin123]

Hello Spring-batch users,

I am considering adding Spring-batch support (in the form of an ItemReader/ItemWriter adapter) for BeanIO, and am wondering if there would be any interest. BeanIO is an open source library for binding Java objects to XML, CSV, fixed length and delimited flat files using an XML mapping file. If you have 5 minutes to spare, check out the BeanIO reference guide at http://beanio.org and let me know what you think.

Thanks!

[Dave Syer]

It's got a friendly license, so feel free to make some adapters, try them out and contribute them back via github (see the README there for instructions). I don't like adding extra dependencies much, but if it's optional I see no reason not to if it turns out to be really useful.