demonstrate problem trying to create subregions

src/test/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/SubRegionFactoryBeanTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package org.springframework.data.gemfire;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class SubRegionFactoryBeanTest {
+	@Test
+	public void test() throws Exception {
+		SubRegionFactoryBean srfb = new SubRegionFactoryBean();
+		srfb.setName("child");
+		srfb.afterPropertiesSet();
+		SubRegion sr = srfb.getObject();
+	}
+}

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

@@ -18,15 +18,18 @@ package org.springframework.data.gemfire.config;
 
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertSame;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
 import org.springframework.data.gemfire.RegionFactoryBean;
 import org.springframework.data.gemfire.RegionLookupFactoryBean;
+import org.springframework.data.gemfire.SubRegion;
 import org.springframework.data.gemfire.TestUtils;
 import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
 import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
@@ -87,4 +90,10 @@ public class ReplicatedRegionNamespaceTest {
 		assertEquals("existing", TestUtils.readField("name", lfb));
 		assertEquals(existing, context.getBean("lookup"));
 	}
+	
+	@Test
+	public void testNestedRegions() {
+		Object parent = context.getBean("parent");
+		//SubRegion child = context.getBean("/parent/child", SubRegion.class);
+	}
 }

src/test/resources/log4j.properties

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %p [%c] - <%m>%n
 
 log4j.category.org.springframework.data.gemfire.listener=TRACE
 log4j.category.org.springframework.data.gemfire.repository=DEBUG
+#log4j.category.org.springframework=DEBUG
 
 # for debugging datasource initialization
 # log4j.category.test.jdbc=DEBUG

src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/replicated-ns.xml

@@ -28,4 +28,8 @@
 	<bean id="c-writer" class="org.springframework.data.gemfire.SimpleCacheWriter"/>
 	
 	<gfe:lookup-region id="lookup" name="existing"/>
+    
+    <gfe:replicated-region id="parent">
+        <gfe:replicated-region name="child"/>
+    </gfe:replicated-region>
 </beans>