Create dinamic steps (on the fly)

[cleliofs]

Hi all,

In my use case, I want to dinamically create a set of steps which is supposed to sequentially execute the same pre-defined flow (same itemReader, itemProcessor and itemWriter).

The total of steps is defined dinamically based on the entries in the database. Does Spring batch framework provide any out-of-box way to achieve this?

Thanks & Regards,

Clelio De Souza

[Dave Syer]

I have seen this done. You can use the existing Job and Step implementations (and factory beans) to create work at runtime. If you have a more concrete use case, and it is generic, maybe we could consider some new features in a future release.