name: Spring Batch
description: >-
  A lightweight, comprehensive batch framework designed to enable the development
  of robust batch applications vital for the daily operations of enterprise systems.
  Spring Batch provides reusable functions for processing large volumes of records
  including logging/tracing, transaction management, job processing statistics,
  job restart, skip, and resource management. It supports reading and writing from
  flat files, XML, JSON, databases (JDBC, JPA, Hibernate), message queues, and more.
image: https://spring.io/img/projects/spring-batch.svg
created: 2024-01-15 00:00:00+00:00
modified: '2026-05-02'
specificationVersion: '0.18'
url: https://spring.io/projects/spring-batch
type: opensource
tags:
  - Batch Processing
  - Data Processing
  - Enterprise
  - ETL
  - Java
  - Job Scheduling
  - Spring Framework
apis:
  - name: Spring Batch Core API
    description: >-
      Core framework API for batch processing including job configuration, execution,
      step management, job repository, and monitoring. Includes support for chunk-oriented
      processing with configurable readers, processors, and writers.
    image: https://spring.io/img/projects/spring-batch.svg
    humanURL: https://spring.io/projects/spring-batch
    baseURL: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch
    tags:
      - Batch Jobs
      - Chunk Processing
      - Job Repository
      - Step Execution
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/docs/current/reference/html/
      - type: API Documentation
        url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/docs/current/api/
      - type: GitHub Repository
        url: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch
      - type: Getting Started Guide
        url: https://spring.io/guides/gs/batch-processing/
      - type: Reference Guide
        url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/docs/current/reference/html/index-single.html
      - type: Samples
        url: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/tree/main/spring-batch-samples
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/spring-batch-openapi.yml
      - type: Spectral Rules
        url: rules/spring-batch-rules.yml
  - name: Spring Batch Actuator API
    description: >-
      Spring Boot Actuator-based REST endpoints for monitoring Spring Batch
      applications. Provides health indicators, Micrometer metrics, and job
      execution visibility.
    humanURL: https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/docs/current/reference/html/monitoring-and-metrics.html
    baseURL: http://localhost:8080/actuator
    tags:
      - Actuator
      - Health
      - Metrics
      - Monitoring
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/docs/current/reference/html/monitoring-and-metrics.html
  - name: Spring Batch Infrastructure API
    description: >-
      Infrastructure components providing ItemReader, ItemWriter, and ItemProcessor
      implementations for various data sources and destinations.
    humanURL: https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/docs/current/reference/html/readersAndWriters.html
    baseURL: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch
    tags:
      - Item Readers
      - Item Writers
      - JDBC
      - JPA
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/docs/current/reference/html/readersAndWriters.html
      - type: API Documentation
        url: https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch/docs/current/api/org/springframework/batch/item/package-summary.html
maintainers:
  - name: Spring Team
    email: spring-batch@pivotal.io
    url: https://spring.io/team
include:
  - name: Spring Framework
    url: https://spring.io/projects/spring-framework
  - name: Spring Boot
    url: https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot
common:
  - type: Blog
    url: https://spring.io/blog/category/spring-batch
  - type: Stack Overflow
    url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring-batch
  - type: Chat
    url: https://gitter.im/spring-projects/spring-batch
  - type: Issues
    url: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/issues
  - type: Roadmap
    url: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/milestones
  - type: License
    url: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/blob/main/LICENSE
  - type: Contributing Guidelines
    url: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
  - type: Maven Central
    url: https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.springframework.batch
  - type: Release Notes
    url: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/releases
  - type: Security Policy
    url: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/security/policy