Effective Application Development with GemFire using Spring Data GemFire

This session focused on getting developers up-to-speed and productive with Pivotal GemFire by using Spring Data GemFire.

The content is appropriate for new and experienced GemFire users alike and demonstrated the value of using both technologies together to develop high-throughput, low-latency and scalable applications efficiently and effectively.

We started by covering some of GemFire's core concepts and then took a look at a few of the new features and tools in GemFire 8.

Next, we dove head first into Spring Data GemFire's simple, yet powerful programming model along with it's rich feature set, specific to Spring Data GemFire, in order to enhance the developers experience when working with GemFire.

Finally, we reviewed a few real-world case studies looking at actual customer use cases and problems (captured in the project modules here) so that GemFire developers can avoid some of the common pitfalls just by following a few recommended practices.

By sessions end, developers new to GemFire were able to gain an understanding for what GemFire is and does along with how to simplify their getting-started experience through Spring Data GemFire. More experienced GemFire users took away some additional insight and recommended practices for being more productive and effective when working with GemFire.

The Effective Application Development with GemFire using Spring Data GemFire session was presented at SpringOne2GX 2014 in Dallas, TX on Wednesday, September 10 at 4:30 pm CST by John Blum and Luke Shannon.

About

The effective-spring-gemfire project consists of 4 modules...

• spring-gemfire-core

This module contains source code and resources common to the other project modules.

• gemfire-cachexml-example

This module demonstrates the GemFire 7.x and Spring Data GemFire 1.4.x method of launching a GemFire Server JVM process from Gfsh bootstrapping a Spring ApplicationContext using a small snippet of GemFire cache.xml. The example also illustrates how Spring can be used to auto-wire GemFire components using Dependency Injection (DI) declared in the cache.xml file.

• gemfire-springxml-example

This module demonstrates the new and preferred GemFire 8 method of using Spring to bootstrap a GemFire Server in a Spring ApplicationContext's JVM process using Gfsh's new --spring-xml-location option to the start server command.

• gemfire-mysql-example

This module showcases a customer case study that uses GemFire together with a MySQL database in a global, JTA-based transactional context.

Click the link of each module above to learn more.

Runtime Requirements

1. Install JDK 1.7.
2. Set JAVA_HOME to the JDK 7 installation directory; include $JAVA_HOME/bin in your $PATH if necessary.
3. Install GemFire 8.
4. Set GEMFIRE to the GemFire 8 installation directory; include $GEMFIRE/bin in your $PATH.

To build the project as well...

Build Requirements

5. Install Maven 3.2.x.
6. Install Ant 1.9.x.

Build

To build the effective-spring-gemfire project run...

$ant clean-all
...

$mvn clean install
...

$ant build-all
...

Conclusion

For those SpringOne attendees who attended our session, thank you! We are open to and appreciate any honest feedback on how we can improve and make this type of session even more valuable next time. Feel free to reach out to us; contact information is the POM file.

Thanks again. See you next year!