The second part of my Spring Batch tutorial described how you can get the required dependencies with Maven. However, Gradle has got a lot of traction during the last few years, and the odds are that you might want to use it instead of Maven. That is why I wanted to write a blog post […] Read more
Spring Framework
The first part of my Spring Batch tutorial explained why you should use Spring Batch instead of writing your own batch jobs and identified the basic building blocks of a Spring Batch job. Before you can move on and see Spring Batch in action, you have to get the required dependencies. After you have read […] Read more
Most enterprise applications rely heavily on batch jobs. They run during the night and do all the time consuming tasks that cannot be done during business hours. These tasks are often critical to the business and errors can cause serious damage (i.e. cost a lot of money). That's why it is important to write robust […] Read more
I think that the best part of writing a blog is to get comments from my readers. Because I have learned a lot from my readers, I want to “reward” the best comments, help you to learn new things, and (hopefully) encourage people to leave more comments. The rules are simple: I select X best […] Read more
Yesterday I published 10 most popular blog posts which I wrote in 2015. I also promised to choose my favorite blog posts and publish that list on my blog. This year I decided to select blog posts that fulfill these requirements: The blog post was published during 2015 AND it wasn't one of my most […] Read more
The year 2015 is almost over, and this means that it is time to publish the most popular blog posts which I wrote during this year. I selected these blog posts by following these steps: I created a list of all blog posts which were published during 2015. I selected the blog posts that had […] Read more