Logging isn't enough to see the outcome. Removed logging and instead use JdbcTemplate to query DB.

complete/pom.xml

@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@
 			<url>http://repo.springsource.org/snapshot</url>
 			<snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
 		</repository>
+		<repository>
+			<id>spring-milestones</id>
+			<url>http://repo.springsource.org/milestone</url>
+			<snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
+		</repository>
 	</repositories>
 	<pluginRepositories>
 		<pluginRepository>

complete/src/main/java/hello/BatchConfiguration.java

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 package hello;
 
+import java.sql.ResultSet;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import java.util.List;
+
 import javax.sql.DataSource;
 
 import org.springframework.batch.core.Job;
@@ -19,10 +23,12 @@ import org.springframework.batch.item.file.mapping.DefaultLineMapper;
 import org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.DelimitedLineTokenizer;
 import org.springframework.bootstrap.SpringApplication;
 import org.springframework.bootstrap.context.annotation.EnableAutoConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
 import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
 import org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate;
+import org.springframework.jdbc.core.RowMapper;
 
 @Configuration
 @EnableBatchProcessing
@@ -30,7 +36,16 @@ import org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate;
 public class BatchConfiguration {
 
 	public static void main(String[] args) {
-		SpringApplication.run(BatchConfiguration.class, args);
+		ApplicationContext ctx = SpringApplication.run(BatchConfiguration.class, args);
+		List<Person> results = ctx.getBean(JdbcTemplate.class).query("SELECT first_name, last_name FROM people", new RowMapper<Person>() {
+			@Override
+			public Person mapRow(ResultSet rs, int row) throws SQLException {
+				return new Person(rs.getString(1), rs.getString(2));
+			}
+		});
+		for (Person person : results) {
+			System.out.println("Found <" + person + "> in the database.");
+		}
 	}
 
 	@Bean
@@ -42,20 +57,14 @@ public class BatchConfiguration {
 	public ItemReader<Person> reader() {
 		FlatFileItemReader<Person> reader = new FlatFileItemReader<Person>();
 		reader.setResource(new ClassPathResource("sample-data.csv"));
-		reader.setLineMapper(new DefaultLineMapper<Person>() {
+		reader.setLineMapper(new DefaultLineMapper<Person>() {{
-			{
+			setLineTokenizer(new DelimitedLineTokenizer() {{
-				setLineTokenizer(new DelimitedLineTokenizer() {
-					{
 				setNames(new String[] { "firstName", "lastName" });
-					}
+			}});
-				});
+			setFieldSetMapper(new BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper<Person>() {{
-				setFieldSetMapper(new BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper<Person>() {
-					{
 				setTargetType(Person.class);
-					}
+			}});
-				});
+		}});
-			}
-		});
 		return reader;
 	}
 
@@ -75,16 +84,22 @@ public class BatchConfiguration {
 
 	@Bean
 	public Job importUserJob(JobBuilderFactory jobs, Step s1) {
-		Job job = jobs.get("importUserJob").incrementer(new RunIdIncrementer()).flow(s1)
+		return jobs.get("importUserJob")
-				.end().build();
+				.incrementer(new RunIdIncrementer())
-		return job;
+				.flow(s1)
+				.end()
+				.build();
 	}
 
 	@Bean
 	public Step step1(StepBuilderFactory stepBuilderFactory, ItemReader<Person> reader,
 			ItemWriter<Person> writer, ItemProcessor<Person, Person> processor) {
-		return stepBuilderFactory.get("step1").<Person, Person> chunk(10).reader(reader)
+		return stepBuilderFactory.get("step1")
-				.processor(processor).writer(writer).build();
+				.<Person, Person> chunk(10)
+				.reader(reader)
+				.processor(processor)
+				.writer(writer)
+				.build();
 	}
 
 }

complete/src/main/java/hello/Person.java

@@ -24,7 +24,16 @@ public class Person {
     private String lastName;
     private String firstName;
     
-    public void setFirstName(final String firstName) {
+    public Person() {
+    	
+    }
+
+	public Person(String firstName, String lastName) {
+    	this.firstName = firstName;
+    	this.lastName = lastName;
+	}
+
+	public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
 		this.firstName = firstName;
 	}
 
@@ -32,14 +41,14 @@ public class Person {
         return firstName;
     }
 
-    public void setLastName(final String lastName) {
-        this.lastName = lastName;
-    }
-
     public String getLastName() {
         return lastName;
     }
 
+    public void setLastName(String lastName) {
+		this.lastName = lastName;
+	}
+
     @Override
     public String toString() {
         return "firstName: " + firstName + ", lastName: " + lastName;

complete/src/main/java/hello/PersonItemProcessor.java

@@ -29,9 +29,7 @@ public class PersonItemProcessor implements ItemProcessor<Person, Person> {
         final String firstName = person.getFirstName().toUpperCase();
         final String lastName = person.getLastName().toUpperCase();
         
-        final Person transformedPerson = new Person();
+        final Person transformedPerson = new Person(firstName, lastName);
-        transformedPerson.setFirstName(firstName);
-        transformedPerson.setLastName(lastName);
 
         System.out.println("Converting (" + person + ") into (" + transformedPerson + ")");
         

complete/src/main/resources/logging.properties

@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
-.level = ALL
-java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = FINE
-org.springframework.jdbc.core.level = FINE