Motivation

Easy promise

Spring Batch is the "de facto" framework for testing but we question ourselves: "what if I need an alternative", "what if I don't want to include Spring in my projects only for batching". Well, we start searching for this alternative.

Java has a standard for batch processing: JSR-352. Well that's really great you can think, but wait a moment. Which are the implementations? One of these is Spring Batch but we need another one. Then we have jberet, it seems really cool but if you dig deeper you will find out that it is really thought to a Java EE application if you need something lightweight (like we have with Spring Boot and Dropwizard) you will end up with lots of jboss dependencies. So that's not good for our applications, and will end up making the tests more complex.

Thank god there is an alternative for the alternative. Here we have "Easy Batch". It seems really easy for using but what about to test? Let's figure it out.