How to run a simple spring batch program without using maven

[heina]

Hi-

I found most examples uses maven and the spring batch sample runs from junit/easymock.
in the spring batch getting starts, it says
With Eclipse and without Maven

To launch a job from the command line instead of a unit test use the CommandLineJobRunner.main() method (see Javadocs included in that class).--> what does this mean?

How can I compile and run in eclipse w/o using maven to build the jar and run from junit case?

can spring batch job launched from main() method
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext .xml", MyClass.class);
}
many thanks.

[DHGarrette]

The CommandLineJobLauncher has a main() method. It is the class that you should use from the command line to launch a job.

Maven is useful for downloading all of the JARs on which Spring Batch is dependent. If you do not want to use Maven, then you can acquire the JARs yourself. Check out the *-with-dependencies.zip downloads from [1] or [2].

[1] http://static.springframework.org/do...?project=BATCH
[2] http://static.springframework.org/do...?project=BATCH