Time needed to complete ~30 minutes
1.Introduction
Spring Batch Admin is a web
application that helps administrating batch jobs for Spring Batch applications
and systems. It is a project from Spring.
2.What is used in this tutorial
2- Jdk 1.7
3- Tomcat 7.0.55
4- Eclipse Luna 4.4
5- Spring Core 3.2.9
6- Spring Batch 2.2.7
7- Spring Batch Admin Manager
1.3.0
8- MySQL 5.5
3.Project Structure
Picture 1: springBatchAdminTC project struture
4. Configuration files
- In Batch-default.properties
change database name(default name is test)
for property batch.jdbc.url, username for property batch.jdbc.user and password
for property batch.jdbc.password.
Listing 1: is a part of batch-default.properties
Note: Database should exist, spring batch admin will not create the database, only tables will be created.
- business-schema-mysql.sql is
an empty file, if deleted spring batch admin when started will throw and
exception.
- In the pom.xml file change username
and password for tomcat user.
Listing 2: part of pom.xml file
Note: users and password can be added/changed from path to apache-tomcat-7.0.55/conf/tomcat-users.xml
5. Deploying spring batch admin
- Select project SpringBatchAdminTc
-> right click -> Run as -> Maven install
Picture 2: Maven Install
- Start tomcat server.
- Select project SpringBatchAdminTc
-> right click -> Run as -> Maven build… , In name text field type springBatchAdminTC and in goal text field type tomcat7:redeploy , click apply and Run
Picture 3: Deploy application to tomcat
- Open address localhost:8080
/springBatchAdminMysql in web browser
Picture 4: Home page for spring batch admin app
6. Keeping data in MySQL
Spring Batch Admin will re-initialize
the data in each new tomcat server restart, to prevent this from happening in batch-default.properties
uncomment property batch.data.source.init=false, then redeploy the project by going to Run As icon and select springBatchAdminTC
