StepExecutionResourceProxy Not Thread Safe?

[laverite]

Hello,

I am trying to run multiples of the the same job in parallel (flat file read) using the StepExecutionResourceProxy to pass in filenames at runtime. However I notice that when I have multiple threads (using SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor), I almost always get a: "...ReaderNotOpenException: Reader must be open before it can be read"

Is the StepExecutionResourceProxy not thread safe?

Any ideas how I can get around this problem?

Thanks!

[Dave Syer]

It is probably better to follow the advice that we always give (including in the user guide) and create a new ApplicationContext per job execution. There are many components of a job (especially a flat file job) that are stateful.