Question on basic usages of Spring Batch

[adrianshum]

your second opinion seems to be a fair solution. However it won't work if I am utilizing RepeatOperationsStep to do parallel processing, right?

[dkaminsky]

It would work if you're running several jobs in parallel. It would not work if you were running your steps in parallel. However, if you are only running your steps in parallel, there is no reason you can't just use a synchronized block around accesses to a singleton Properties object.