March 2014 – Celinio's technical blog : learning and adapting

[Spring Batch] Order of execution of the reader, the processor and the writer

March 31, 2014March 31, 2014 by Celinio

It seems to me that the order of execution of the reader, the processor and the writer, inside a step and a chunk, is not always clear in everybody’s mind (included mine when i started with Spring Batch). So I made the following 2 tables that should help – I hope – clarify things. 1) … Read more

Asynchronously run a method with the Async and Await keywords

March 6, 2014March 6, 2014 by Celinio

I wrote this small class to illustrate the use of the Async and Await keywords which were added in .NET 4.5. It should quickly help anyone curious to understand this easier way to write asynchronous programs in C#. The output below (DOS window) shows clearly the difference between the call of a synchronous method and … Read more