BATCH_JOB_EXECUTION status stuck in STARTING

[Tandy]

Hi have have a job configured to persist the job repository to a db (oracle)

The unit test runs ok, but it will only run once then i get an exception

org.springframework.batch.core.repository.JobExecu tionAlreadyRunningException: A job execution for this job is already running: JobInstance:

If I look in the BATCH_JOB_EXECUTION the status set to STARTING.

here is my config

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-2.5.xsd">

	<bean id="hello"
		class="player.profile.ProfileOutput">
		<property name="message" value="my" />
	</bean>

	<bean id="apa"
		class="com.bossmedia.gem.components.player.profile.ProfileOutput">
		<property name="message" value="test" />
	</bean>

	<bean id="taskletStep" abstract="true"
		class="org.springframework.batch.core.step.tasklet.TaskletStep">
		<property name="jobRepository" ref="jobRepository" />
		<property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
	</bean>

	<bean id="simpleJob" class="org.springframework.batch.core.job.SimpleJob">
		<property name="name" value="simpleJob" />
		<property name="steps">
			<list>
				<bean parent="taskletStep">
					<property name="tasklet" ref="hello" />
				</bean>
				<bean parent="taskletStep">
					<property name="tasklet" ref="apa" />
				</bean>
			</list>
		</property>
		<property name="jobRepository" ref="jobRepository" />
	</bean>


	<bean id="jobLauncher"
		class="org.springframework.batch.core.launch.support.SimpleJobLauncher">
		<property name="jobRepository" ref="jobRepository" />
	</bean>

	<!-- change to map here for in-memory -->
	<bean id="jobRepository"
		class="org.springframework.batch.core.repository.support.JobRepositoryFactoryBean">
		<property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
		<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
		<property name="databaseType" value="oracle" />
  		<property name="tablePrefix" value="batch_"/>

	</bean>


	<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
		<property name="driverClassName" value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" />
		<property name="url" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:XE" />
		<property name="username" value="user" />
		<property name="password" value="psw" />
	</bean>


	<bean id="transactionManager"
		class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
		<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
	</bean>

</beans>

[Dave Syer]

If you get a JobExecutionAlreadyRunningException and you don't think it's true, then maybe you killed the process that execution was running in? You need to upgrade it to FAILED or ABORTED manually, or using a JobRepository, before you can restart it.

You can always start a new instance (new jobParameters) as well.

[anish555]

FYI

It is always better to have unique set of JobParameters for every Job instance.