Spring Batch Admin available: feedback welcome

[Dave Syer]

Spring Batch Admin (the new web UI product from SpringSource) is briefly described with some useful links at: http://blog.springsource.com/2009/11...g-batch-admin/. The 1.0.0.M1 release will follow as soon as we get the dependencies stabilised (mainly Spring Batch right now). The project website is here: http://static.springsource.org/spring-batch-admin.

This is a community project, just like Spring Batch, so feedback is welcome. If you want to contribute, start here on the forum and use JIRA (http://jira.springframework.org/browse/BATCHADM) to raise issues and feature requests.

[javaguy44]

Out of curiousity, why is admin being built against SpringBatch 1.0? Isn't 2.0 stable?

Admin seems like a good idea, but is the SpringBatch team expecting new adopter's of SpringBatch to use 1.0?

[Dave Syer]

It's not. I don't know where you got that from. Did you misread the pom? Admin is building against Spring Batch 2.1.

[Dave Syer]

The 1.0.0.M1 release is available at the community download site (http://www.springsource.com/products...unity-download) and also through Maven with the SpringSource S3 milestone repository. The repository location is

<repositories>
   <repository>
      <id>com.springsource.repository.maven.milestone</id>
      <url>http://s3.amazonaws.com/maven.springsource.com/milestone/</url>
      <snapshots><enabled>false</enabled></snapshots>
   </repository>
</repositories>

http://blog.springsource.com/2009/12...ies-in-spring/ has some more details on those co-ordinates.

[sapmetp]

High Dave,

Our batch projects depends on spring 2.5.6. But it seems Batch Admin requires spring 3.0. How can we use Batch Admin with spring 2.5.6.

thx


mahmut

[Dave Syer]

You can run background jobs with 2.5.6 and inspect the results using Batch Admin. Spring 3.0 is a pre-requisite for the web app because we rely on the REST support. I'd be very surprised if you app that works in 2.5.6 didn't work in 3.0. If not what is broken?

[sapmetp]

we have lots of programs(war files) and we are short in time for production. Therefore we can't afford any possible delay while upgrading to spring 3.0.

Then, i think we should rewrite the web interface; is it correct?

[Dave Syer]

Spring 3.0 is out now, and there shouldn't be any difficulty upgrading vanilla apps. It would be a lot quicker and safer than writing a whole web app from scratch.

[javaguy44]

Sorry Dave - misread. Thx

[snicoll]

Dave,

Do you think it would be feasible to get a milestone release that builds against Spring Batch 2.1.0? The latest release is build against M4 as far as I know.

We would like to integrate the batch admin web interface for our demos and showcases and running off the trunk is something we would like to avoid.

Thanks,
S.