Developers of the Spring Framework for Java application development have partnered with Accenture to build Spring Batch, providing for batch processing in the Java realm. Many enterprise customers have a requirement for batch processing and Java historically has ignored this, said Neelan Choksi, senior vice president of Americas at Interface21, in an email. Interface21 oversees development of Spring technologies Developers of the Spring Framework for Java application development have partnered with Accenture to build Spring Batch, providing for batch processing in the Java realm.Many enterprise customers have a requirement for batch processing and Java historically has ignored this, said Neelan Choksi, senior vice president of Americas at Interface21, in an email. Interface21 oversees development of Spring technologies. Spring Batch is a generalized batch processing solution consistent with the Spring programming model.“Spring Batch’s aim is to provide tools and applications to support bulk processing in an enterprise environment,” Choksi said. The initial release will feature tools for the Spring Batch infrastructure, enabling operations to be batched together. Work can be retried if there is an exception.A Spring Batch Milestone 1 release is planned for this quarter.Interface21 also announced this week that Oracle has contributed its transaction manager integration code to the Spring Framework. This integration will enable organizations to more easily build applications based on Oracle Application Server, Interface21 said. Technology Industry