title: Spring Batch Partitioning : Slave step with multiple steps
body: <p>Given a <em>Spring Batch</em> Job that uses partitioning, is it possible to have more than one <em>partition step</em>?</p>
  
  <p>For example : </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;batch:step id="masterStep"
      next="nextStep"&gt;
           &lt;partition step="slaveStep1"
                partitioner="dataPartitioner"&gt;
                  &lt;batch:handler grid-size="10" task-executor="taskExecutor" /&gt;
           &lt;/partition&gt;
  &lt;/batch:step&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the above example, is it possible to add another <code>parition step</code> to the <code>masterStep</code> (preferably without needing to provide a partitioner for each partitioned step)? If not, is there another way to configure multiple steps that will execute one after another for each partition?</p>