How do I set up to ... run batch jobs based on priority?

I am a complete newbie to programming as well as to this forum. Please bear with me as I ask what are probably obvious questions.

I have looked through documentation as well as made numerous Google attempts to learn, but so far I've come up empty-handed:

1) Is there a settable parameter that would allow me to achieve the following? If there is, how do I configure it?

I would like to set up batch jobs so that in addition to the "normal" priority, I can have the option to run "high" priority jobs that would bump others in line. Among the "normal" priority jobs, FIFO is fine. I'd like to have persistent records of jobs that were submitted and their status, preferably with automatic retries of failures.

I am working with Spring-Batch 3.0.3 in particular and Spring 4.0.6 in general. I'm submitting jobs from a webservice on a JBoss AS 7.1.1 server.

2) If there isn't an out-of the box implementation, could I write something (a taskExecutor?) to achieve this goal? And how might I do it?