Spring Batch Architecture Overview and Core Concepts
This article introduces Spring Batch as a lightweight, comprehensive batch‑processing framework for enterprise applications, explains its overall architecture, and details core concepts such as Job, JobInstance, JobParameters, JobExecution, Step, StepExecution, ExecutionContext, JobRepository, JobLauncher, ItemReader, ItemWriter, ItemProcessor, chunk processing, skip/failure handling, best‑practice guidelines, and common troubleshooting tips.