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Batch introduction

Batch introduction - Java EE Tutorial

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Batch introduction

- [Instructor] In this video we're going to look at another one of the new APIs in Java EE 7: The Batch Processing API. Batch processing is about bulk processing of data to preform mission critical operations. Often this means processing large and complex volumes of data. But it is more efficiently processed in an automated manner. So as an example of the type of processing this would include, you can think of payroll processing, periodic aggregation for reporting, processing of large datasets of data that requires validation and formatting. So why am I talking about enterprise backend operations and, of course, about web technologies? That's because the batch API is lightwieght enough for us to use to batch process some data. And the data we're going to process is cargo event data. But before we take a look at how to do this, we have to look at how Java EE has implemented batch processing. Okay, so let's get started. So where does batch processing fit into our, now very familiar…

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