Appendix A. Setting up the development environment
This appendix shows you how to set up your development environment. We begin with Apache Maven 3: installing Maven and using basic commands. We then create a new Maven project from scratch and add the necessary dependencies for Spring Batch. We also explore Spring Batch features from the SpringSource Tool Suite for Eclipse and learn how to set up a Spring Batch project quickly from a blank Maven project and use the Spring Batch development tools.
Apache Maven provides build tools, documentation, dependency management, and reporting for your projects. One of the benefits of Maven is to promote standards and conventions that accelerate the development cycle. At the heart of all Maven projects is the POM—the Project Object Model—represented in a pom.xml file. The POM contains general project information like name, version, dependencies, and plug-in descriptions.
First, we install Maven and learn some basic commands. We then create a new Maven project from scratch and configure it to use Spring Batch.
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For more information about Maven, visit http://maven.apache.org.
Maven is a Java program, so you need Java on your computer to be able to run it. To check that your computer has the Java SDK (software development kit) installed and available, run the command java -version; you should see this output: