Spring Batch

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.

Spring Batch publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Batch Jobs API, Health API, and Metrics API. Tagged areas include Batch Processing, Data Processing, Enterprise, ETL, and Java.

The Spring Batch catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Spring Batch’s developer surface includes engineering blog, Stack Overflow tag, release notes, and 10 more developer resources.

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45.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

AccessFreemium

5 APIs

Batch ProcessingData ProcessingEnterpriseETLJavaJob SchedulingSpring Framework

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

Composite quality — 45.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 15.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 8.2 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Spring Batch Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Contributing Guidelines

Contributing Guidelines

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Security Policy

Security Policy

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StackOverflow

Issues

RoadMap

ReleaseNotes

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Chat

Chat

Maven Central

Maven Central

Source (apis.yml)

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.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://spring.io/img/projects/spring-batch.svg
created: 2024-01-15 00:00:00+00:00
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.18'
url: https://spring.io/projects/spring-batch
kind: opensource
tags:
- Batch Processing
- Data Processing
- Enterprise
- ETL
- Java
- Job Scheduling
- Spring Framework
apis:
- 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
- aid: spring-batch:spring-batch-batch-jobs-api
  name: Spring Batch Batch Jobs API
  description: Batch job execution management and monitoring
  humanURL: https://spring.io/projects/spring-batch
  baseURL: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch
  tags:
  - Batch Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spring-batch-batch-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - 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: GitHubRepository
    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: SpectralRules
    url: rules/spring-batch-rules.yml
- aid: spring-batch:spring-batch-health-api
  name: Spring Batch Health API
  description: Application and component health checks
  humanURL: https://spring.io/projects/spring-batch
  baseURL: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch
  tags:
  - Health
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spring-batch-health-api-openapi.yml
  - 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: GitHubRepository
    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: SpectralRules
    url: rules/spring-batch-rules.yml
- aid: spring-batch:spring-batch-metrics-api
  name: Spring Batch Metrics API
  description: Micrometer-based application metrics
  humanURL: https://spring.io/projects/spring-batch
  baseURL: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/spring-batch-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - 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: GitHubRepository
    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: SpectralRules
    url: rules/spring-batch-rules.yml
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: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/spring-batch-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/spring-batch-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/spring-batch-domain-security.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://spring.io/blog/category/spring-batch
- type: StackOverflow
  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: ReleaseNotes
  url: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/releases
- type: Security Policy
  url: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/security/policy

Spring Batch

APIs 5

Open Collections 1

Pricing Plans 1