Limit the lifetime of a batch job

Question

Is there a way to limit the lifetime of a running spring-batch job to e.g. 23 hours?

We start a batch job daily by a cron job and he job takes about 9 hours. It happened

Answer 1

If you write your own job class to launch the process you can make your class implement StatefulJob interface, which prevents concurrent launches of the same job. Apart from that you can write your own monitoring and stop the job programatically after some period, but it will require some custom coding, I dont know if there is anything build-in for such use case.

Answer 2

Spring Batch specifically avoids the issue of job orchestration which this falls into. That being said, you could add a listener to your job that checks for other instances running and calls stop on them before beginning that one. Not knowing what each job does, I'm not sure how effective that would be, but it should be a start.