diff --git a/initial/pom.xml b/initial/pom.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+	<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+	<artifactId>gs-batch-processing-initial</artifactId>
+	<version>1.0</version>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>org.springframework.bootstrap</groupId>
+        <artifactId>spring-bootstrap-starters</artifactId>
+        <version>0.5.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+    
+	<dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.bootstrap</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-bootstrap-batch-starter</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
+   	</dependencies>
+
+	<repositories>
+		<repository>
+			<id>spring-snapshots</id>
+			<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>
+			<id>spring-snapshots</id>
+			<url>http://repo.springsource.org/snapshot</url>
+			<snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
+		</pluginRepository>
+	</pluginRepositories>
+</project>
diff --git a/initial/src/main/java/hello/.gitignore b/initial/src/main/java/hello/.gitignore
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diff --git a/initial/src/main/resources/sample-data.csv b/initial/src/main/resources/sample-data.csv
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+++ b/initial/src/main/resources/sample-data.csv
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+Jill,Doe
+Joe,Doe
+Justin,Doe
+Jane,Doe
+John,Doe
diff --git a/initial/src/main/resources/schema.sql b/initial/src/main/resources/schema.sql
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+DROP TABLE people IF EXISTS;
+
+CREATE TABLE people  (
+	person_id BIGINT IDENTITY NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
+	first_name VARCHAR(20),
+	last_name VARCHAR(20)
+);