AfterStep being called twice

[zalym]

Hi,

I have a job with two steps. The first step reads data from a table and creates a list of objects, and the second step writes these objects to a flat file.

I have a class which implements the ItemReader and ItemWriter interfaces. This class is configured as the writer for step 1(jdbcItemreader is the itemreader), and reader for step2(flatfileitemwriter is the writer here).

I configured an afterstep for step 1 which does some final logic and adds the object to a list. I am using an AfterStep annotation to achive this funcationality. My problem is that this afterStep is being called twice.

Here is my configuration:

<job id="createFxRatesReconFeed" incrementer="runIncrementer">
	<step id="loadFxRates" next="writeFxRates">
		<tasklet>
			<chunk reader="fxRatesReader" writer="fxRatesProcessor"
				commit-interval="10" />
			<listeners>
				<listener ref="fxRatesProcessor" />
			</listeners>
		</tasklet>
	</step>
	<step id="writeFxRates">
		<tasklet>
			<chunk reader="fxRatesProcessor" writer="fxRatesWriter"
				commit-interval="100" />
		</tasklet>
	</step>
</job>

My questions are:
1. Why does my listener's after method gets called twice?
2. The listener documentation states that I can use a pojo and specify the *-method in the configuration. So I expected something like this would work without using the AfterStep annotation or implementing the StepListener, but wrong again. The afterWrite method never got called.

<job id="createFxRatesReconFeed" incrementer="runIncrementer">
	<step id="loadFxRates" next="writeFxRates">
		<tasklet>
			<chunk reader="fxRatesReader" writer="fxRatesProcessor"
				commit-interval="10" />
			<listeners>
				<listener ref="fxRatesProcessor" after-step-method="afterWrite" />
			</listeners>
		</tasklet>
	</step>
	<step id="writeFxRates">
		<tasklet>
			<chunk reader="fxRatesProcessor" writer="fxRatesWriter"
				commit-interval="100" />
		</tasklet>
	</step>
</job>

Thanks in advance.