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# Getting Started: Batch-based Processing
What you'll build
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- [JDK 7][jdk7] or later
- Your choice of Maven (3.0+) or Gradle (1.5+)
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Set up the project
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### Create a Maven POM
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Congratulations! You have just built a batch job to ingest data from a spreadsheet, processed it, and written it into a database.
[zip]: https://github.com/springframework-meta/gs-batch-processing/archive/master.zip
-[jdk7]: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/webnotes/install/index.html
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