Basic Configuration and Programming

Basic Configuration and Programming describes how to configure distributed system and cache properties for your vFabric GemFire installation. For your applications, it provides guidance for writing code to manage your cache and distributed system connection, data regions, and data entries, including custom classes.

Note: Although this section primarily discusses using the GemFire cache.xml file to configure GemFire and using the GemFire API to write applications, Java developers can also use the Spring Data GemFire API to configure a distributed GemFire system and write applications that access and use data stored in GemFire. Spring Data GemFire provides many advantages for creating such applications with GemFire.

For more information on the advantages of using Spring with GemFire, see Getting Started with Spring Data GemFire.

For a complete discussion of Spring Data GemFire, see Spring Data GemFire Reference Guide

Distributed System and Cache Configuration
To work with your vFabric GemFire applications, you use a combination of configuration files and application code.
Cache Management
The vFabric GemFire cache is the entry point to GemFire caching management. GemFire provides different APIs and XML configuration models to support the behaviors of different members.
Data Regions
The region is the core building block of the vFabric GemFire distributed system. All cached data is organized into data regions and you do all of your data puts, gets, and querying activities against them.
Data Entries
The data entry is the key/value pair where you store your data. You can manage your entries individually and in batches. To use domain objects for your entry values and keys, you need to follow vFabric GemFire requirements for data storage and distribution.

Parent topic: About vFabric GemFire User's Guide