It is a lightweight, comprehensive solution designed to enable the development of robust batch applications,[1] which are often found in modern enterprise systems.
[2] Spring Batch provides reusable functions that are essential in processing large volumes of records,[3]: 714–717, §12 including logging/tracing, transaction management, job processing statistics,[3]: 536–537, §12-7 job restart, skip, and resource management.
It also provides more advanced technical services and features that will enable extremely high-volume and high performance batch jobs[3]: 511–512, 518–519, §12 through optimization and partitioning techniques.
[2] Simple as well as complex,[3]: 520, §12-2 high-volume batch jobs can leverage the framework in a highly scalable manner to process significant volumes of information.
Spring Batch 1.0.0 was made available to the public in March 2008.