Replace the SSDG project build.GemFireServer Gradle Plugin with STDG means of launching and managing Apache Geode servers for client/server integration tests.

samples/xml/gemfire-clientserver/src/main/java/sample/client/ApacheGeodeServerWebApplicationInitializer.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright 2015-present 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
+ *
+ *      https://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 sample.client;
+
+import static org.springframework.data.gemfire.util.RuntimeExceptionFactory.newRuntimeException;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+import jakarta.servlet.ServletContext;
+
+import org.springframework.data.gemfire.tests.integration.ForkingClientServerIntegrationTestsSupport;
+import org.springframework.data.gemfire.tests.process.ProcessWrapper;
+import org.springframework.data.gemfire.util.CollectionUtils;
+import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
+import org.springframework.web.WebApplicationInitializer;
+
+import io.github.classgraph.ClassGraph;
+import sample.server.GemFireServer;
+
+/**
+ * Spring {@link WebApplicationInitializer} used to bootstrap an Apache Geode server process.
+ *
+ * @author John Blum
+ * @see sample.server.GemFireServer
+ * @see org.springframework.data.gemfire.tests.integration.ForkingClientServerIntegrationTestsSupport
+ * @see org.springframework.data.gemfire.tests.process.ProcessWrapper
+ * @see org.springframework.web.WebApplicationInitializer
+ * @since 3.0.0
+ */
+public class ApacheGeodeServerWebApplicationInitializer extends ForkingClientServerIntegrationTestsSupport
+		implements WebApplicationInitializer {
+
+	@Override
+	public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) {
+
+		try {
+
+			//System.err.printf("JAVA CLASSPATH [%s]%n", javaSystemClasspath());
+			//System.err.printf("THREAD CONTEXT CLASSLOADER CLASSPATH [%s]%n", contextClassLoaderClasspath());
+			//System.err.printf("CLASS-GRAPH CLASSLOADER CLASSPATH [%s]%n", classGraphClassLoaderClasspath());
+
+			registerGeodeServerRuntimeShutdownHook(
+				startGeodeServer(classGraphClasspath(), GemFireServer.class));
+		}
+		catch(IOException cause) {
+			throw newRuntimeException(cause, "Failed to start the Apache Geode Server");
+		}
+	}
+
+	static String classGraphClasspath() {
+
+		List<String> classpathElements = CollectionUtils.nullSafeList(new ClassGraph().getClasspathURLs()).stream()
+			.filter(Objects::nonNull)
+			.map(URL::getFile)
+			.filter(StringUtils::hasText)
+			.toList();
+
+		return StringUtils.collectionToDelimitedString(classpathElements, System.getProperty("path.separator"));
+	}
+
+	static ProcessWrapper registerGeodeServerRuntimeShutdownHook(ProcessWrapper geodeServer) {
+
+		if (geodeServer != null) {
+			Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread(() -> {
+				ForkingClientServerIntegrationTestsSupport.stop(geodeServer);
+			}, "Apache Geode Server Runtime Shutdown Hook"));
+		}
+
+		return geodeServer;
+	}
+}

samples/xml/gemfire-clientserver/src/main/java/sample/client/ClientServerReadyBeanPostProcessor.java

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  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
-
 package sample.client;
 
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;

samples/xml/gemfire-clientserver/src/main/java/sample/server/GemFireServer.java

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  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
-
 package sample.server;
 
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext;

samples/xml/gemfire-clientserver/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/session-client.xml

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 	<context:property-placeholder/>
 
+	<bean class="sample.client.ApacheGeodeServerWebApplicationInitializer"/>
 	<bean class="sample.client.ClientServerReadyBeanPostProcessor"/>
 
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