diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/wan/CachePartitionRegionWithConcurrentParallelAsyncEventQueueAndGatewaySenderIntegrationTest.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/wan/CachePartitionRegionWithConcurrentParallelAsyncEventQueueAndGatewaySenderIntegrationTest.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 org.springframework.data.gemfire.wan;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import java.util.List;
+import javax.annotation.Resource;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+
+import com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.DataPolicy;
+import com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.Region;
+import com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.asyncqueue.AsyncEvent;
+import com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.asyncqueue.AsyncEventListener;
+import com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.asyncqueue.AsyncEventQueue;
+import com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.wan.GatewaySender;
+
+/**
+ * The CachePartitionRegionWithConcurrentParallelAsyncEventQueueAndGatewaySenderIntegrationTest class is a test suite
+ * of test cases testing the concurrent, parallel functionality configuration of GemFire AsyncEventQueues
+ * and GatewaySenders using Spring Data GemFire.
+ *
+ * @author John Blum
+ * @see org.junit.Test
+ * @see org.junit.runner.RunWith
+ * @see org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration
+ * @see org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner
+ * @see com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.asyncqueue.AsyncEventQueue
+ * @see com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.wan.GatewaySender
+ * @since 1.5.0
+ */
+@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+@ContextConfiguration
+@SuppressWarnings("unused")
+public class CachePartitionRegionWithConcurrentParallelAsyncEventQueueAndGatewaySenderIntegrationTest {
+
+	@Autowired
+	private AsyncEventQueue exampleQueue;
+
+	@Autowired
+	private GatewaySender exampleGateway;
+
+	@Resource(name = "ExampleRegion")
+	private Region<?, ?> exampleRegion;
+
+	@Test
+	public void testPartitionRegionWithConcurrentParallelAsyncEventQueueAndGatewaySenderConfiguration() {
+		assertNotNull("The 'ExampleRegion' PARTITION Region was not properly configured and initialized!", exampleRegion);
+		assertEquals("ExampleRegion", exampleRegion.getName());
+		assertEquals("/ExampleRegion", exampleRegion.getFullPath());
+		assertNotNull(exampleRegion.getAttributes());
+		assertEquals(DataPolicy.PARTITION, exampleRegion.getAttributes().getDataPolicy());
+		assertTrue(exampleRegion.getAttributes().getAsyncEventQueueIds().contains("ExampleQueue"));
+		assertTrue(exampleRegion.getAttributes().getGatewaySenderIds().contains("ExampleGateway"));
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testConcurrentParallelAsyncEventQueue() {
+		assertNotNull("The 'ExampleQueue' AsyncEventQueue was not properly configured and initialized!", exampleQueue);
+		assertEquals("ExampleQueue", exampleQueue.getId());
+		assertNotNull(exampleQueue.getAsyncEventListener());
+		assertEquals(4, exampleQueue.getDispatcherThreads());
+		assertTrue(exampleQueue.isParallel());
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testConcurrentParallelGatewaySender() {
+		assertNotNull("The 'ExampleGateway' was not properly configured and initialized!", exampleGateway);
+		assertEquals("ExampleGateway", exampleGateway.getId());
+		assertEquals(123, exampleGateway.getRemoteDSId());
+		assertEquals(8, exampleGateway.getDispatcherThreads());
+		assertTrue(exampleGateway.isParallel());
+		assertFalse(exampleGateway.isRunning());
+	}
+
+	@SuppressWarnings("unused")
+	public static final class TestAsyncEventListener implements AsyncEventListener {
+		@Override public boolean processEvents(final List<AsyncEvent> events) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		@Override public void close() {
+		}
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/wan/CachePartitionRegionWithConcurrentParallelAsyncEventQueueAndGatewaySenderIntegrationTest-context.xml b/src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/wan/CachePartitionRegionWithConcurrentParallelAsyncEventQueueAndGatewaySenderIntegrationTest-context.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	   xmlns:gfe="http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire"
+	   xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
+	   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	   xsi:schemaLocation="
+	   	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire/spring-gemfire.xsd
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd
+">
+
+	<util:properties id="gemfireProperties">
+		<prop key="name">CachePartitionRegionWithConcurrentParallelAsyncEventQueueAndGatewaySenderIntegrationTest</prop>
+		<prop key="mcast-port">0</prop>
+		<prop key="log-level">warning</prop>
+	</util:properties>
+
+	<gfe:cache properties-ref="gemfireProperties"/>
+
+	<gfe:async-event-queue id="ExampleQueue" dispatcher-threads="4" parallel="true">
+		<gfe:async-event-listener>
+			<bean class="org.springframework.data.gemfire.wan.CachePartitionRegionWithConcurrentParallelAsyncEventQueueAndGatewaySenderIntegrationTest$TestAsyncEventListener"/>
+		</gfe:async-event-listener>
+	</gfe:async-event-queue>
+
+	<gfe:gateway-sender id="ExampleGateway" remote-distributed-system-id="123" parallel="true" dispatcher-threads="8"
+						manual-start="true"/>
+
+	<gfe:partitioned-region id="ExampleRegion" persistent="false">
+		<gfe:gateway-sender-ref bean="ExampleGateway"/>
+		<gfe:async-event-queue-ref bean="ExampleQueue"/>
+	</gfe:partitioned-region>
+
+</beans>