@RequestMapping(value = "/v1/initiateEntityCreation", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String initiateEntityCreation()
            throws JobExecutionAlreadyRunningException, JobRestartException, JobInstanceAlreadyCompleteException,
            JobParametersInvalidException, NoSuchJobException, JobInstanceAlreadyExistsException {
        JobParametersBuilder jobParametersBuilder = new JobParametersBuilder();
        jobParametersBuilder.addDate("Date", new Date());
Long executionContext = jobOperator.start("InitiateEntityCreation", String.format("Date=%s", new Date()));
        return executionContext.toString();
    }

java -jar spring-cloud-dataflow-server-local-1.2.3.RELEASE.jar --
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/springbatchdb--
spring.datasource.username=root --spring.datasource.password=password --
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver