Spring batch scope issue while using spring boot

Question

I\'m having Standalone spring batch job. This works perfectly fine when in JUNIT

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
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Answer 1

This may be a bug (we're still investigating), however we do have a work around. The cause of this is that when using @EnableBatchProcessing the StepScope that is automatically configured assumes java config and therefore does not proxy the step scoped beans, causing them to be created too soon. The work around is to manually configure a StepScope in your XML configuration with the following configuration: