need help on defining a work flow using spring batch

[josson]

I am very new to spring batch and trying to come up with a work flow using spring batch. I will be executing hadoop map/reduce job from each batch:step. Please find the attched work flow diagram. I have 2 approches to represent this work flow in the spring configuration file. Below is the most optimized way of executing but I am not able to identify how I can execute step number 10.

<batch:job id="basicJob">
		<batch:step id="step1" next="split1">	
		</batch:step>
		<batch:split id="split1" task-executor="taskExecutor">
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step2" next="step4">
				</batch:step>
				<batch:step id="step4" next="split2">
				</batch:step>
				<batch:split id="split2" task-executor="taskExecutor">
					<batch:flow>
						<batch:step id="step6" next="step11">
						</batch:step>
						<batch:step id="step11" next="step12">
						</batch:step>
						<batch:step id="step12">
						</batch:step>
					</batch:flow>
					<batch:flow>
						<batch:step id="step7">
						</batch:step>
					</batch:flow>
				</batch:split>
			</batch:flow>
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step3" next="step5">
				</batch:step>
				<batch:step id="step5" next="split3">
				</batch:step>
				<batch:split id="split3" task-executor="taskExecutor">
					<batch:flow>
						<batch:step id="step8">
						</batch:step>
					</batch:flow>
					<batch:flow>
						<batch:step id="step9" next="split13">
						</batch:step>
						<batch:step id="step13" next="split14">
						</batch:step>
						<batch:step id="step14">
						</batch:step>
					</batch:flow>
				</batch:split>
			</batch:flow>
		</batch:split>
	</batch:job>

Below representation executes everything well. But there is so munch unnecessary waiting before executing certain steps. For ex: step number 10 waits untill all of step11,step10 and step 12 finishes.

<batch:job id="basicJob">

		<batch:step id="step1" next="split1">
			
		</batch:step>
		<batch:split id="split1" task-executor="taskExecutor" next="split3">
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step2" >
				</batch:step>
			</batch:flow>
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step3" >
				</batch:step>
			</batch:flow>
		</batch:split>
		
		<batch:split id="split3" task-executor="taskExecutor" next="split4">
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step4" >
				</batch:step>
			</batch:flow>
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step5" >
				</batch:step>
			</batch:flow>
		</batch:split>
		
		<batch:split id="split4" task-executor="taskExecutor" next="split5">
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step6" >
				</batch:step>
			</batch:flow>
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step7" >
				</batch:step>
			</batch:flow>
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step8" >
				</batch:step>
			</batch:flow>
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step9" >
				</batch:step>
			</batch:flow>
		</batch:split>
		
		<batch:split id="split5" task-executor="taskExecutor" next="split6">
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step10" >
				</batch:step>
			</batch:flow>
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step11" >
				</batch:step>
			</batch:flow>
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step12" >
				</batch:step>
			</batch:flow>
		</batch:split>
		<batch:split id="split6" task-executor="taskExecutor">
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step13" >
				</batch:step>
			</batch:flow>
			<batch:flow>
				<batch:step id="step14" >
				</batch:step>workflow11.resized.jpg
			</batch:flow>
		</batch:split>

	</batch:job>

Can you please let me know whether there are any other solutions?.

[mminella]

In your first snip, I don't see a step10 (or split10) so I'm not sure what part you are attempting to execute. In the second snip, I would expect step10, step11 and step12 to execute in parallel.