RESOLVED - issue BATCH-472: Exceeding the start limit on a step will cause a vague exception type to be thrown.

http://jira.springframework.org/browse/BATCH-472

added package-private StartLimitExceededException (subclass of UnexpectedJobExecutionException), that takes Step as constructor argument and creates appropriate message

spring-batch-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/core/job/SimpleJobTests.java

@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ public class SimpleJobTests extends TestCase {
 			job.execute(jobExecution);
 			fail("Expected BatchCriticalException");
 		}
-		catch (UnexpectedJobExecutionException ex) {
+		catch (StartLimitExceededException ex) {
 			// expected
 			assertTrue("Wrong message in exception: " + ex.getMessage(), ex.getMessage()
 					.indexOf("start limit exceeded") >= 0);