Spring Data GemFire
===================

The primary goal of the [Spring Data GemFire](http://http://projects.spring.io/spring-data-gemfire) project is to make it easier to build highly scalable, Spring-powered applications using
[Pivotal GemFire](http://www.pivotal.io/big-data/pivotal-gemfire) as a distributed, data management platform.

# Examples

For examples on using the Spring Data GemFire, see the [spring-gemfire-examples](https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-gemfire-examples) project.

# Getting Help

Read the main project [website](http://projects.spring.io/spring-data-gemfire/) and the [User Guide](http://docs.spring.io/spring-data-gemfire/docs/current/reference/html/).
Look at the source code and the [JavaDocs](http://docs.spring.io/spring-data-gemfire/docs/current/api/).
For more detailed questions, visit [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring-data-gemfire).
If you are new to Spring as well as to Spring Data GemFire, look for information about [Spring projects](http://spring.io/projects).

Quick Start
-----------

For those in a hurry:

* Download the jar through

* Maven:

~~~~~ xml
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-data-gemfire</artifactId>
  <version>${version}</version>
</dependency> 

<!-- used for nightly builds -->
<repository>
  <id>spring-maven-snapshot</id>
  <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
  <name>Springframework Maven SNAPSHOT Repository</name>
  <url>http://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
</repository> 

<!-- used for milestone/rc releases -->
<repository>
  <id>spring-maven-milestone</id>
  <name>Springframework Maven Milestone Repository</name>
  <url>http://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
</repository>

<!-- required for gemfire jar -->
<repository>
  <id>spring-maven-plugins-release</id>
  <name>Springframework Maven Plugins Release Repository</name>
  <url>http://repo.spring.io/plugins-release</url>
</repository> 
~~~~~

* Gradle: 

~~~~~ groovy
repositories {
   mavenRepo name: "spring-snapshot", urls: "http://repo.spring.io/snapshot"
   mavenRepo name: "spring-milestone", urls: "http://repo.spring.io/milestone"
   mavenRepo name: "spring-plugins" , urls: "http://repo.spring.io/plugins-release"
}

dependencies {
   compile "org.springframework.data:spring-data-gemfire:${version}"
}
~~~~~

Latest GA release is _1.4.4.RELEASE_
Latest nightly build is _1.5.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT_


* Configure a GemFire cache and Region (replicated, partitioned, client and so on):

~~~~~ xml
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:gfe="http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire"
  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">

  <gfe:cache />
  
  <gfe:partitioned-region id="partition" copies="2" total-buckets="4">

  <bean id="gemfireTemplate" class="org.springframework.data.gemfire.GemfireTemplate" p:region-ref="someRegion"/>
</beans>
~~~~~

* Use the Region to read/write data:

~~~~~ java
region.put(Long.valueOf(1), new Person("Jane", "Smith"));
~~~~~

* Or/And `GemFireTemplate` to interact with GemFire:

~~~~~ java
template.query("person = 1");
~~~~~

# Building

Spring GemFire uses Gradle as its building system. To compile the project, simply type from the root folder

    gradlew

To generate IDE-specific files, use

    gradlew eclipse
 
or

    gradlew idea 
    
depending on your editor.

# Contributing


Here are some ways for you to get involved in the community:

* Get involved with the Spring community on the Spring Community Forums (now on StackOverflow).  Please help out on the [forum](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/spring-data-gemfire) by responding to questions and joining the debate.
* Create [JIRA](https://jira.spring.io/browse/SGF) tickets for bugs and new features and comment and vote on the ones that you are interested in.
* GitHub is for social coding. If you want to write code, we encourage contributions through pull requests from [forks of this repository](http://help.github.com/forking/). If you want to contribute code this way, please reference a JIRA ticket as well covering the specific issue you are addressing.
* Watch for upcoming articles on Spring by [subscribing](http://spring.io/blog) to spring.io.

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