Hi Frank, Hard to tell since I don't have the target date for 1.8. I can already tell this is gonna be a huge work and probably will not be finished during the timeframe of a single release (until 1.8).
Best, Arnold On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 2:17 PM Frank Nkuyahaga <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Arnold, sound interesting. Is this on the roadmap for Finearct 1.8? > > On 16 May 2022, at 15:04, Arnold Galovics <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I'd like to introduce you to the idea of enhancing Fineract with the > capability to handle high-volume batch jobs along with a few other things. > > As any financial system, Fineract also supports batch jobs but they're > quite limited on the data volume it can handle. Currently a batch job is a > single Java method with loading everything at once and processing that huge > chunk of data in a single execution step/transaction. > > To make Fineract better, we need to alter this simplified framework a > little bit and introduce something that's more battle-tested: the Spring > Batch module is here to help. > > With introducing Spring Batch into the mix, we'll finally have a chance to > decouple data reading, processing and data writing that'll finally bring us > the benefit of making our batch jobs: > - faster > - reliable > - being able to handle huge data volumes > > And I'm not gonna just stop there, with Spring Batch in place, we'll be > able to distribute our batch job workloads into separate JVMs in a scenario > where we want to run a cluster of Fineract instances to cope with the load. > > The next thing to the Spring Batch module integration is the introduction > of a new batch job, Loan Close Of Business; that'll be the starting point > of reworking the date handling in Fineract. This job will be simply > responsible to "close" Loans on a daily basis making sure that > interests/fees/etc are calculated properly. It's going to be the first > full-fledged job that'll be able to run in a partitioned mode on a cluster > of JVMs and multiple threads. > > The job will be rolled out as disabled by default so it won't interfere > with any existing deployments but if somebody will need it's potential and > business functionality, they can certainly enable it. Also, there's an > extensive documentation I already wrote for this; right now it's in PR for > some review and I'm gonna do a few additional modifications but you can > check it out here: https://github.com/apache/fineract/pull/2326 > > I don't want to repeat everything that's in the PR so if you're curious be > sure to check it. > > TL;DR; Spring Batch is going to be integrated into Fineract. A new batch > job called Loan Close Of Business will be created along with some > additional functionality that's described in the PR above. > > Best, > Arnold > > >
