Added another test case for JIRA feature requests SGF-207 and SDG-254, Region Templates, to test the correct Region to Region Template bean defintion order in the Spring context configuration file. Region Templates must be defined 'before' the Regions that are based on those template definitions.

src/test/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/TemplateRegionDefinitionOrderErrorNamespaceTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/*
+ * 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.config;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException;
+import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;
+
+/**
+ * The TemplateRegionDefinitionOrderErrorNamespaceTest class is a test suite of test cases testing the contract
+ * and functionality of Region Templates, and specifically the correct order definition of Region Templates before
+ * the Region bean definitions and concrete types that use those templates.
+ *
+ * @author John Blum
+ * @see org.junit.Test
+ * @see org.junit.runner.RunWith
+ * @see org.springframework.data.gemfire.test.GemfireTestApplicationContextInitializer
+ * @see org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration
+ * @see org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner
+ * @since 1.5.0
+ */
+public class TemplateRegionDefinitionOrderErrorNamespaceTest {
+
+	protected String getConfigLocation() {
+		return getClass().getName().replaceAll("\\.", File.separator).concat("-context.xml");
+	}
+
+	@Test(expected = BeanDefinitionParsingException.class)
+	public void testIncorrectTemplateRegionDefinitionOrder() throws Exception {
+		try {
+			new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(getConfigLocation());
+		}
+		catch (BeanDefinitionParsingException expected) {
+			assertTrue(expected.getMessage().contains(
+				"The Region template [RegionTemplate] must be 'defined before' the Region [TemplateBasedPartitionRegion] referring to the template!"));
+			throw expected;
+		}
+	}
+
+}

src/test/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/TemplateRegionsNamespaceTests.java

@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ import com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.util.ObjectSizer;
 import com.gemstone.gemfire.distributed.Role;
 
 /**
- * The TemplateRegionsNamespaceTests class...
+ * The TemplateRegionsNamespaceTests class is a test suite of test cases testing the functionality and support for
+ * Region Templating in Spring Data GemFire.
  *
  * @author John Blum
  * @see org.junit.Test