Getting Started With Spring Batch 2.0 | Javalobby

Getting Started With Spring Batch 2.0 | Javalobby

This is a good article but still I'm yet to find much substance on how to get a skeleton project start and no Maven archetype exists that I can find.

OS X instantclient and .tnsnames.ora

.tnsnames.ora - Doug's Oracle Blog

This blog entry was a huge help in geting the Oracle instant client to work for me on OS X. No matter what I tried I could not get my TNS_ADMIN variable to work with sqlplus. What a relief to discover that a personal tnsnames.ora can be created in one's home directory.