Wrote first cut of the guide and polished the complete code at the same time.

complete/src/main/java/hello/BatchConfiguration.java

@@ -35,24 +35,6 @@ import org.springframework.jdbc.core.RowMapper;
 @EnableAutoConfiguration
 public class BatchConfiguration {
 
-	public static void main(String[] args) {
-		ApplicationContext ctx = SpringApplication.run(BatchConfiguration.class, args);
-		List<Person> results = ctx.getBean(JdbcTemplate.class).query("SELECT first_name, last_name FROM people", new RowMapper<Person>() {
-			@Override
-			public Person mapRow(ResultSet rs, int row) throws SQLException {
-				return new Person(rs.getString(1), rs.getString(2));
-			}
-		});
-		for (Person person : results) {
-			System.out.println("Found <" + person + "> in the database.");
-		}
-	}
-
-	@Bean
-	public JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate(DataSource dataSource) {
-		return new JdbcTemplate(dataSource);
-	}
-
 	@Bean
 	public ItemReader<Person> reader() {
 		FlatFileItemReader<Person> reader = new FlatFileItemReader<Person>();
@@ -102,4 +84,22 @@ public class BatchConfiguration {
 				.build();
 	}
 
+	@Bean
+	public JdbcTemplate jdbcTemplate(DataSource dataSource) {
+		return new JdbcTemplate(dataSource);
+	}
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		ApplicationContext ctx = SpringApplication.run(BatchConfiguration.class, args);
+		List<Person> results = ctx.getBean(JdbcTemplate.class).query("SELECT first_name, last_name FROM people", new RowMapper<Person>() {
+			@Override
+			public Person mapRow(ResultSet rs, int row) throws SQLException {
+				return new Person(rs.getString(1), rs.getString(2));
+			}
+		});
+		for (Person person : results) {
+			System.out.println("Found <" + person + "> in the database.");
+		}
+	}
+
 }

complete/src/main/java/hello/Person.java

@@ -1,25 +1,5 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2013 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
 package hello;
 
-/**
- * <p>
- * Domain object representing information about a person.
- * </p>
- */
 public class Person {
     private String lastName;
     private String firstName;

complete/src/main/java/hello/PersonItemProcessor.java

@@ -1,28 +1,7 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2013 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
 package hello;
 
 import org.springframework.batch.item.ItemProcessor;
 
-/**
- * <p>
- * An example {@link org.springframework.batch.item.ItemProcessor} implementation that upper cases attributes on the
- * provided {@link Person} object.
- * </p>
- */
 public class PersonItemProcessor implements ItemProcessor<Person, Person> {
     @Override
     public Person process(final Person person) throws Exception {