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classes that enable the configuration of distributed caches or regions to
support a variety of scenarios with minimal effort.
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+ Using the Spring GemFire Namespace
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+ To simplify configuration, SGF provides a dedicated namespace for most of its components. However, one can opt to configure the beans
+ directly through the usual <bean> definition. For more information about XML Schema-based configuration in Spring, see
+ this appendix in the
+ Spring Framework reference documentation.
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+ To use the SGF namespace, one just needs to import it inside the configuration:
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+ Spring GemFire namespace prefix. Any name can do but through out the reference documentation, the gfe will be used.
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+ The namespace URI.
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+ The namespace URI location. Note that even though the location points to an external address (which exists and is valid), Spring will resolve
+ the schema locally as it is included in the Spring GemFire library.
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+ Declaration example for the GemFire namespace. Notice the prefix usage.
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+ Once declared, the namespace elements can be declared simply by appending the aforementioned prefix. Note that is possible to change the default namespace,
+ for example from <beans> to <gfe>. This is useful for configuration composed mainly of GemFire components as
+ it avoids declaring the prefix. To achieve this, simply swap the namespace prefix declaration above:
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+ The default namespace declaration for this XML file points to the Spring GemFire namespace.
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+ The beans namespace prefix declaration.
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+ Bean declaration using the <beans> namespace. Notice the prefix.
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+ Bean declaration using the <gfe> namespace. Notice the lack of prefix (as the default namespace is used).
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+ For the remainder of this doc, to improve readability, the XML examples will simply refer to the <gfe> namespace
+ without the namespace declaration, where possible.
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- Configuring the GemFire
+ <title>Configuring the GemFire
<interfacename>Cache</interfacename>
In order to use the GemFire Fabric, one needs to either create a new
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In its simplest form, a cache can be defined in one line:
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Here, the default-cache will try to connect to
an existing cache and, in case one does not exist, create it. Since no
additional properties were specified the created cache uses the default