Went through ItemWriters this evening and in the process added the catalog of ItemWriters to the appendix. I also opened a minor jira issue for questions I had on a few points I found.

docs/src/site/docbook/reference/appendix.xml

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
   <section>
     <title>Item Readers</title>
+
     <table>
       <title>Available Item Readers</title>
 
@@ -138,4 +139,106 @@
       </tgroup>
     </table>
   </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>Item Writers</title>
+
+    <table>
+      <title>Available Item Writers</title>
+
+      <tgroup cols="3">
+        <colspec align="center" />
+
+        <thead>
+          <row>
+            <entry align="center">Item Writer</entry>
+
+            <entry align="center">Type of Item Written</entry>
+
+            <entry align="center">Description</entry>
+          </row>
+        </thead>
+
+        <tbody>
+          <row>
+            <entry align="left">CompositeItemWriter</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">java.lang.Object</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">Passes an item to the process method of each
+            in an injected <emphasis role="bold">List</emphasis> of <emphasis
+            role="bold">ItemWriter</emphasis> objects</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry align="left">DelegatingItemWriter</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">java.lang.Object</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">Wraps ItemWriter and is BeanAware allowing it
+            to respond to Spring Bean events like
+            afterPropertiesSet().</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry align="left">PropertyExtractingDelegatingItemWriter</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">java.lang.Object</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">Extends AbstractMethodInvokingDelegator
+            creating arguments on the fly. Arguments are created by retrieving
+            the values from the fields in the item to be processed (via a
+            SpringBeanWrapper) based on an injected array of field
+            name</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry align="left">ItemTransformerItemWriter</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">java.lang.Object</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">Extends <emphasis
+            role="bold">ItemWriterItemWriter</emphasis> by defining its
+            <emphasis role="bold">doProcess</emphasis> method to call an
+            injected <emphasis role="bold">ItemTransformer</emphasis></entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry align="left">FlatFileItemWriter</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">java.lang.Object</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">Attempts to convert the item to a <emphasis
+            role="bold">String</emphasis>, <emphasis
+            role="bold">Collection</emphasis> or array using an injected
+            <emphasis role="bold">Coverter</emphasis> and then recurses. See
+            [HOWTO - Write to a File]</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry align="left">HibernateAwareItemWriter</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">java.lang.Object</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">This item writer is hibernate session aware
+            and handles some transaction-related work that a non-"hibernate
+            aware" item writer would not need to know about and then delegates
+            to another item writer to do the actual writing. See [HOWTO -
+            Write to a Database]</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry align="left">StaxEventWriterItemWriter</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">java.lang.Object</entry>
+
+            <entry align="left">Uses an <emphasis
+            role="bold">ObjectToXmlSerializer</emphasis> implementation to
+            convert each item to XML and then writes it to an XML file using
+            StAX. See [HOWTO - Write to a File]</entry>
+          </row>
+        </tbody>
+      </tgroup>
+    </table>
+  </section>
 </appendix>