Programming

My Spring Batch tutorial has taught us to read the input data of our batch job from different data sources. However, our batch jobs aren't very useful because we don't know how we can save the data that is read from these data sources. It's time to take the next step and learn how we […] Read More

I have almost finished the starter package of my long awaited Test With Spring course. This means that the 30% discount of my Test With Spring course ends next Monday (26th of September, 2016 at 23.59.59 EEST). In other words, I will release the starter package next Monday. After I have released it, the discount […] Read More

About eight months I ago I wrote a blog post that asked one question: What prevents you from writing automated tests? The answers of my survey were not a surprise to me because I had struggled to solve the same problems in the past. The top four obstacles were: We have no time to write […] Read More

The previous parts of this tutorial have taught you to read the input data of your batch job from different data sources. However, your batch job isn't very useful because you don’t know how you can save the output data of your batch job. This time you will learn to write the output data of […] Read More

It is pretty easy to create a Spring Batch job that reads its input data from a CSV or an XML file because these file formats are supported out of the box. However, if you want to read the input data of your batch job from a.XLS or.XLSX file that was created with Excel, you […] Read More

Spring Batch has a good support for reading data from different data sources such as files ( CSV or XML) or databases. However, it doesn’t have a built-in support for reading input data from a REST API. If you want to use a REST API as a data source of your Spring Batch job, you […] Read More