Hi,

I have gone through quite a bit of trouble to try installing and running the sample jobs. Of all the things I've tried, the following is my most successful "thread" so far, but I'm still stuck and unable to run any of the sample unit tests. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What I have done (using Maven 2.0.4, and an empty local repository)

1) Downloaded m3a and extracted
2) "mvn install" ed the from the spring-batch-samples folder
3) Install failed with below message

Code:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.

Unsupported Protocol: 's3': Cannot find wagon which supports the requested protocol: s3
  commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.1

from the specified remote repositories:
  spring-snapshot (s3://maven.springframework.org/snapshot),
  spring-milestone (http://s3.amazonaws.com/maven.springframework.org/milestone),
  spring-release (s3://maven.springframework.org/release),
  apache-snapshot (http://people.apache.org/maven-snapshot-repository),
  spring-external (http://s3.amazonaws.com/maven.springframework.org/external),
  central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
Path to dependency:
        1) org.springframework.batch:spring-batch-samples:jar:1.0.0.m3
        2) org.springframework.aws:spring-aws-maven:jar:1.2
        3) commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.1
4) Googled and found the following post: http://forum.springframework.org/arc...p/t-42855.html

5) As suggested in that post, manually added the following repository in front of the first repository in the *parent* POM:

Code:
<repository>
<id>central-maven2-repo</id>
<name>Central maven 2 repo</name>
<url>http://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
</repository>
6) Re-ran the mvn install
7) Install failed with below message:

Code:
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Compilation failure

C:\SpringBatchSecondTry\spring-batch-1.0.0.m3\samples\spring-batch-samples\src\main\java\org\springframework\batch\sampl
e\tasklet\ExceptionRestartableTasklet.java:[32,7] cannot access org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean
class file for org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean not found
public class ExceptionRestartableTasklet extends RestartableItemProviderTasklet {
8) Googled and found following post: http://forum.springframework.org/showthread.php?t=43264

9) As suggested in that post, commented the <exclusion> tag for org.springframework - artifact:spring out, as below:

Code:
<!--exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring</artifactId>
</exclusion-->
10) Rerun the mvn install
11) Install successful this time
12) Imported project into Eclipse
13) When trying to execute any of the Unit tests in test/org.springframework.batch.sample, I get the following error:

Code:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.beans.factory.config.ConfigurableListableBeanFactory.registerResolvableDependency(Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/Object;)V
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.prepareBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:446)
	at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:341)
	at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:122)
	at org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.<init>(ClassPathXmlApplicationContext.java:66)
	at org.springframework.batch.sample.AbstractBatchLauncherTests.createApplicationContext(AbstractBatchLauncherTests.java:53)
	at org.springframework.test.AbstractSingleSpringContextTests.loadContextLocations(AbstractSingleSpringContextTests.java:212)
	at org.springframework.test.AbstractSingleSpringContextTests.loadContext(AbstractSingleSpringContextTests.java:187)
	at org.springframework.test.AbstractSpringContextTests.getContext(AbstractSpringContextTests.java:140)
	at org.springframework.test.AbstractSingleSpringContextTests.setUp(AbstractSingleSpringContextTests.java:100)
	at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:125)
	at org.springframework.test.ConditionalTestCase.runBare(ConditionalTestCase.java:76)
	at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
	at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
	at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
	at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
	at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
	at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.junit3.JUnit3TestReference.run(JUnit3TestReference.java:128)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:460)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:673)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:386)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)
Now I'm really stuck. Could this error have to do with the two "hacks" I felt obliged to use in order to successfully complete the Maven install? If so, do you have any suggestions for an alternative to using these hacks?

I would really like to get these samples running asap - we are considering the Spring Batch framework for an application scheduled to go to production in a few months.

Thanks a lot in advance !
Charlie