Created a Spring Data GemFire Starter POM

... as well as a Spring Boot Sample Application with associated tests
for demonstrating how to get started using both Spring Data GemFire
and GemFire.

spring-boot-samples/spring-boot-sample-data-gemfire/src/test/java/sample/data/gemfire/SampleDataGemFireApplicationTest.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2010-2013 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package sample.data.gemfire;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.SpringApplicationConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+
+import sample.data.gemfire.domain.Gemstone;
+import sample.data.gemfire.service.GemstoneService;
+import sample.data.gemfire.service.GemstoneServiceImpl.IllegalGemstoneException;
+
+/**
+ * The SampleDataGemFireApplicationTest class is a test suite with test cases testing the SampleDataGemFireApplication
+ * in Spring Boot.
+ * <p/>
+ * @author John Blum
+ * @see org.junit.Test
+ * @see org.junit.runner.RunWith
+ * @see org.springframework.boot.test.SpringApplicationConfiguration
+ * @see org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner
+ * @see sample.data.gemfire.SampleDataGemFireApplication
+ * @since 1.0.0
+ */
+@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = SampleDataGemFireApplication.class)
+@SuppressWarnings("unused")
+public class SampleDataGemFireApplicationTest {
+
+	@Autowired
+	private GemstoneService gemstoneService;
+
+	private final AtomicLong ID_GENERATOR = new AtomicLong(0l);
+
+	protected List<Gemstone> asList(final Iterable<Gemstone> gemstones) {
+		List<Gemstone> gemstoneList = new ArrayList<Gemstone>();
+
+		if (gemstones != null) {
+			for (Gemstone gemstone : gemstones) {
+				gemstoneList.add(gemstone);
+			}
+		}
+
+		return gemstoneList;
+	}
+
+	protected Gemstone createGemstone(final String name) {
+		return createGemstone(ID_GENERATOR.incrementAndGet(), name);
+	}
+
+	protected Gemstone createGemstone(final Long id, final String name) {
+		return new Gemstone(id, name);
+	}
+
+	protected List<Gemstone> getGemstones(final String... names) {
+		List<Gemstone> gemstones = new ArrayList<Gemstone>(names.length);
+
+		for (String name : names) {
+			gemstones.add(createGemstone(null, name));
+		}
+
+		return gemstones;
+	}
+
+	@Before
+	public void setup() {
+		assertNotNull("A reference to the GemstoneService was not properly configured!", gemstoneService);
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testGemstonesApp() {
+		assertEquals(0, gemstoneService.count());
+		assertTrue(asList(gemstoneService.list()).isEmpty());
+
+		gemstoneService.save(createGemstone("Diamond"));
+		gemstoneService.save(createGemstone("Ruby"));
+
+		assertEquals(2, gemstoneService.count());
+		assertTrue(asList(gemstoneService.list()).containsAll(getGemstones("Diamond", "Ruby")));
+
+		try {
+			gemstoneService.save(createGemstone("Coal"));
+		}
+		catch (IllegalGemstoneException expected) {
+		}
+
+		assertEquals(2, gemstoneService.count());
+		assertTrue(asList(gemstoneService.list()).containsAll(getGemstones("Diamond", "Ruby")));
+
+		gemstoneService.save(createGemstone("Pearl"));
+		gemstoneService.save(createGemstone("Sapphire"));
+
+		assertEquals(4, gemstoneService.count());
+		assertTrue(asList(gemstoneService.list()).containsAll(getGemstones("Diamond", "Ruby", "Pearl", "Sapphire")));
+
+		try {
+			gemstoneService.save(createGemstone("Quartz"));
+		}
+		catch (IllegalGemstoneException expected) {
+		}
+
+		assertEquals(4, gemstoneService.count());
+		assertTrue(asList(gemstoneService.list()).containsAll(getGemstones("Diamond", "Ruby", "Pearl", "Sapphire")));
+		assertEquals(createGemstone("Diamond"), gemstoneService.get("Diamond"));
+		assertEquals(createGemstone("Pearl"), gemstoneService.get("Pearl"));
+	}
+
+}