http://jira.springframework.org/browse/BATCH-485 SkipLimitStepFactoryBean now declares setter for fatal exceptions that are never skipped and immediately rethrown by exception handlerRESOLVED - issue BATCH-485: SkippableExceptionClasses should be inverted http://jira.springframework.org/browse/BATCH-485 SkipLimitStepFactoryBean now declares setter for fatal exceptions that are never skipped and immediately rethrown by exception handler. LimitCheckingItemSkipPolicy and SimpleLimitExceptionHandler were modified to recognize fatal exceptions.