New to Batch and looking for help...

[david_fouts]

I am new to Spring Batch and of course we are implementing it, typical. Anyway, I believe I have things setup correctly however once I call "jobLauncher.run(jobLocator.getJob(jobName), jobParameters)" nothing happens. From what I can tell we get to this line "JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(Object, Method, Object[]) line: 204" and never goes any farther.

The application is a Spring 2 framework app. I am hoping some one can look at our XML file and see what we are doing wrong. Basically we have a bean called dataManager with a method called createAuditBinder we want to call.

Thanks,
Dave

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:batch="http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch" 
	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
              	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch 
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch/spring-batch-2.1.xsd">
						
	<bean class="org.springframework.batch.core.scope.StepScope" p:proxyTargetClass="true" />
	<bean id="jobRepository"
	    class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.JobRepositoryFactoryBean">
	  <property name="dataSource" ref="grcDataSource"/>	  
	  <property name="databaseType" value="oracle" />
	  <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" /> 
	  <property name="tablePrefix" value="GRC.BATCH_"	  />
	</bean>
	<bean id="jobLauncher"
	    class="org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.SimpleJobLauncher">
	  <property name="jobRepository" ref="jobRepository" />
	  <property name="taskExecutor">
  		<bean class="org.springframework.core.task.SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor" />
  	  </property>
	</bean>	
	<bean id="transactionManager"
	    class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
	  <property name="dataSource" ref="grcDataSource"/>
	</bean>
             <bean id="jobExplorer" class="org.springframework.batch.core.explore.support.JobExplorerFactoryBean">
		<property name="dataSource" ref="grcDataSource"/>
		<property name="tablePrefix" value="GRC.BATCH_"	  />
	</bean>
	<bean id="jobRegistry" class="org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.support.MapJobRegistry" />
	<bean id="jobRegistryBeanPostProcessor" class="org.springframework.batch.core.configuration.support.JobRegistryBeanPostProcessor">
		<property name="jobRegistry" ref="jobRegistry"/>
	</bean>	
	<job id="buildAuditBinder" restartable="true" xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/batch">
		<step id="step1">
			<tasklet ref="buidTask">
				<!--  <transaction-attributes propagation="REQUIRED"/> -->
			</tasklet>
		</step>
	</job>
	<bean id="buidTask"
		class="org.springframework.batch.core.step.tasklet.MethodInvokingTaskletAdapter">
		<property name="targetObject" ref="dataManager" />
		<property name="targetMethod" value="createAuditBinder" />
	</bean>		
</beans>

[david_fouts]

Follow up question, does a POJO need to implement or extend any Spring Batch class in order for it to run? If so, what class and would you have a small example?

Thanks

[dvb123]

You could consider writing a simple integration test to launch your job. I highly recommend the new Spring Batch in Action book which has some examples about this. http://manning.com/templier/

Look at the JobLauncherTestUtils class for example.

That is how I test/run our jobs outside of the production environment.