Multiple itemwriters in Spring batch

You were right. SB is heavly based on delegation so using a CompositeItemWriter is the right choice for your needs.

You can use Spring's CompositeItemWriter and delegate to it all your writers.
here is a configuration example.

You don't necessarily have to use xml like the example. If the rest of your code uses annotation, you could simply do the following.

public ItemWriter<T> writerOne(){
    ItemWriter<T> writer = new ItemWriter<T>();
    //your logic here
    return writer;
}

public ItemWriter<T> writerTwo(){
    ItemWriter<T> writer = new ItemWriter<T>();
    //your logic here
    return writer;
}

public CompositeItemWriter<T> compositeItemWriter(){
    CompositeItemWriter writer = new CompositeItemWriter();
    writer.setDelegates(Arrays.asList(writerOne(),writerTwo()));
    return writer;
}

Java Config way SpringBatch4

@Bean
    public Step step1() {
            return this.stepBuilderFactory.get("step1")
                                    .<String, String>chunk(2)
                                    .reader(itemReader())
                                    .writer(compositeItemWriter())
                                    .stream(fileItemWriter1())
                                    .stream(fileItemWriter2())
                                    .build();
    }

    /**
     * In Spring Batch 4, the CompositeItemWriter implements ItemStream so this isn't
     * necessary, but used for an example.
     */
    @Bean
    public CompositeItemWriter compositeItemWriter() {
            List<ItemWriter> writers = new ArrayList<>(2);
            writers.add(fileItemWriter1());
            writers.add(fileItemWriter2());

            CompositeItemWriter itemWriter = new CompositeItemWriter();

            itemWriter.setDelegates(writers);

            return itemWriter;
    }