Does Command line batch require Spring container?

[kousik.majumder]

Hi all,

I am trying to use Spring batch framework 2.1.3 to run batch from commandline (shell/bat) for linux/windows.
What I am confused about it is that how and where to deploy it. What I have found after googling is that just putting jars and classes in a folder and running it from command line using 'java' will suffice.
So my question is that how the dependency injection will work without web container in this case?
Please help explaining it.

[anish555]

Consider below as example.
Put this in your shell script and define all variables properly. It should work

$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -Dlog4j.configuration=file:$......./log4j.xml -Xms256m -Xmx1024m -cp $CLASSPATH $JOB_RUNNER $CONFIG_FILE_PATH $JOB_NAME "jobParam1=$param1" "jobParam2=$param2"

where
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03 #Jdk path
CONFIG_FILE_PATH="file:/..........your-job-beans.xml"
JOB_NAME="yourJob"
JOB_RUNNER="org.springframework.batch.core.launch. support.CommandLineJobRunner"

Dont forget to add your jars to the classpath

For more information visit http://static.springsource.org/sprin...figureJob.html

[litius]

So my question is that how the dependency injection will work without web container in this case?
Please help explaining it.

Can be confusing if you are coming from a comfy "web.xml" world where everything is bootstrapped for you

But in reality there is no difference whether it is a web container ( e.g. Tomcat ) or a server with a command line interface: JVM can be agnostic of its whereabouts.

So what really happens when you run "java <props> CommandLineJobRunner" including all the JARs, your JVM, that belongs to the process of the shell / or can be backgrounded ( via & ), is created and since your JARs will have Spring config files, the Spring ApplicationContext will be created within that JVM ( allowing for / using the Dependency Injection ), and the Job will be launched.

/Anatoly