scheduling a batch job

[bbroulik]

One way is to use maven to launch the job - just add the snippet below to your pom.xml and use "mvn exec:exec -Djob.name=myJob -Djob.configuration.path=path/to/myJob.xml" as command (or you can hardcode the parameters).

<plugin>
                  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                  <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                  <executions>
                      <execution>
                          <goals>
                              <goal>exec</goal>
                          </goals>
                      </execution>
                  </executions>
                  <configuration>
                      <executable>java</executable>
                      <arguments>
                          <argument>-classpath</argument>
                          <!-- automatically creates the classpath using all project dependencies, 
                              also adding the project build directory -->
                          <classpath />
                          <!-- job configuration file -->
                          <argument>-Djob.configuration.path=${job.configuration.path}</argument>
                          <!-- job name -->
                          <argument>-Djob.name=${job.name}</argument>
                          <argument>
                              org.springframework.batch.execution.bootstrap.support.BatchCommandLineLauncher
                          </argument>
                      </arguments>
                  </configuration>
              </plugin>

BatchCommandLineLauncher is not available in m5 that I can see. How is this done in m5 or am I missing something? Thanks!

[Dave Syer]

I think it's called CommandLineJobRunner.

[lucasward]

CommandLineJobRunner also uses command line arguments instead of VM arguments.