New Specifications - Java EE 7 First Look - page 24

the ID of the job). In the Servlet ChunkStepBatchProcessing , you will see how to
retrieve the status and how to monitor information about batch processing from the
JobOperator instance.
The following code is an example of code to start a Job:
JobOperator jobOperator =
BatchRuntime.getJobOperator();
if(jobOperator != null)
jobOperator.start("inscriptionJob", null);