Can the Spring Framework be used for batch applications?

Question

My company is switching to Spring for our Java framework, and from what I understand it will work well for that, but we also have many Java batch applications*. Does Spring have adequate support for running batch applications? What features of spring will be useful in this environment, and won't work at all?

* Java command line programs that run backend processes.

Answer 1

There's a Spring project for that.

Answer 2

Absolutely yes. Spring can run in any environment.