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Installing Spring Batch Admin

There is a sample project in the distribution - it's a regular war file project which you can build with Maven (mvn install and look in the target directory). The sample can also be created with a couple of clicks in the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS): go to File->New->Spring Template Project, and select the Spring Batch Admin Webapp from the list (if it isn't there upgrade STS). In STS you can right click on the project and Run As->Run On Server choose Tomcat or tc Server, and the app will deploy and open a web browser (e.g. localhost:8080/spring-batch-admin-sample). Check out the features for launching jobs and inspecting job executions. If the STS project looks out of date (look at the version numbers in the pom.xml) then you might be able to upgrade by changing the POM, or else you may have to install a nightly update of STS or wait for the next release.

Building your own applications:

It is really easy to build a custom web application with the ability to inspect job execution data from external processes:

  • Create a war project with an index.jsp and a web.xml (from the sample or from the spring-batch-admin-resources.jar in the package org.springframework.batch.admin.web.resources).
  • Include the spring-batch-admin-*.jar files in WEB-INF/lib, plus all their dependencies. In the sample this is done simply by making the WAR depend on those jar files in the Maven pom.
  • Deploy the web app. It starts up with an in-memory database, so without any jobs defined in the application it isn't going to do much at first. See the section on environment settings for more detail.

See later in this guide for instructions on how to modify the application and add you own jobs for launching.

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