Early solution for SGF-248 concerning bootstrapping a Spring ApplicationContext inside a GemFire Server-based JVM process when starting the GemFire Server from Gfsh.

src/test/resources/cache-with-initializer.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE cache PUBLIC  "-//GemStone Systems, Inc.//GemFire Declarative Caching 7.0//EN"
+	"http://www.gemstone.com/dtd/cache7_0.dtd">
+<cache>
+	<region name="Users" refid="REPLICATE">
+		<region-attributes initial-capacity="101" load-factor="0.85">
+			<cache-loader>
+				<class-name>org.springframework.data.gemfire.support.SpringContextBootstrappingInitializerTest$UserDataStoreCacheLoader</class-name>
+			</cache-loader>
+		</region-attributes>
+	</region>
+	<initializer>
+		<class-name>org.springframework.data.gemfire.support.SpringContextBootstrappingInitializer</class-name>
+		<parameter name="contextConfigLocations">
+			<string>
+				classpath:org/springframework/data/gemfire/support/initializer-gemfire-context.xml,
+				classpath:org/springframework/data/gemfire/support/initializer-dao-context.xml,
+				classpath:org/springframework/data/gemfire/support/initializer-services-context.xml
+			</string>
+		</parameter>
+	</initializer>
+</cache>

src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/support/initializer-dao-context.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	   xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+	   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/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
+">
+
+	<context:annotation-config/>
+
+	<bean id="userDataSource" class="org.springframework.data.gemfire.support.SpringContextBootstrappingInitializerTest$TestDataSource"/>
+	<bean id="userDao" class="org.springframework.data.gemfire.support.SpringContextBootstrappingInitializerTest$TestUserDao"/>
+
+</beans>

src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/support/initializer-gemfire-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: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
+">
+
+	<gfe:cache/>
+	<gfe:replicated-region id="TestRegion" persistent="false"/>
+
+</beans>

src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/support/initializer-services-context.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	   xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+	   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/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
+">
+
+	<context:annotation-config/>
+
+	<bean name="userService" class="org.springframework.data.gemfire.support.SpringContextBootstrappingInitializerTest$TestUserService"/>
+
+</beans>