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= Introduction

This reference guide for Spring Data GemFire explains how to use the Spring Framework to configure
and develop applications with Pivotal GemFire. It presents the basic concepts, semantics and provides numerous examples
to help you get started.

NOTE: Spring Data GemFire started as a top-level Spring project called Spring GemFire (SGF) and since then
has been moved under the Spring Data umbrella project and renamed accordingly.
