Its solved.....It was a pretty dumb mistake by me...I had commented out the job identifier factory identifier....thanks Lucas for pointing out the JobDao

<property name="jobIdentifierFactory" ref="jobRuntimeInformationFactory" />

This used the scheduled date that I completely ignored in setting while creating this instance

<bean id="jobRuntimeInformationFactory" class="org.springframework.batch.execution.runtime .ScheduledJobIdentifierFactory">
<property name="jobKey" value="TestStream" />
<property name="scheduleDate" value="20070505" />
</bean>

So the query FIND_JOBS in the Dao would never find the job and would always execute from the beginning....sorry for the bother it was a rather stupid mistake

Also, is it possible for me to create my own scheduled job identifier factory as I would like to have the scheduled date to be picked up from a table every time and not be statically injected at once ? Any ideas ?

Thanks..VJ