The caching advice allows you to use string values as the keys and a GemFire .NET serialized objects as the values. To apply the Gemfire Caching advice you need to create an object definition for Spring.Data.GemFire.Caching.GemFireCache and pass a reference to a GemFire region in the constructor. In this example, the caching advice is being applied to a data access repository for Inventors. The inventors The repository is identified as a candidate to apply caching advice through the use of [Repository] attribute.

<objects xmlns="http://www.springframework.net" 
         xmlns:gfe="http://www.springframework.net/gemfire">

  <object id="inventorstore" type="Spring.Data.GemFire.Tests.InventorRepository, Spring.Data.GemFire.Tests"/>

  <!-- the ID matches the name used in the [Cache] attribute -->
  <object id="inventors" type="Spring.Data.GemFire.Caching.GemFireCache, Spring.Data.GemFire">
    <constructor-arg ref="exampleregion"/>
  </object>

  <!-- Defines multiple Advisors for Caching - the CacheResultAdvisor, CacheParameterAdvisor, and InvalidateCacheAdvisor-->
  <object id="CacheAspect" type="Spring.Aspects.Cache.CacheAspect, Spring.Aop"/>


  <!-- The AutoProxy based on attributes to apply the advisors defined in the CacheAspect -->
  <object type="Spring.Aop.Framework.AutoProxy.AttributeAutoProxyCreator, Spring.Aop">
    <!-- AttributeTypes selects the classes that have the RepositoryAttribute at the class level-->
    <property name="AttributeTypes" value="Spring.Stereotype.RepositoryAttribute"/>
    <!-- Interceptor names can be either of the type IAdvice, IAdvisor, or IAdvisors -->
    <!-- The CacheAspect is of the type IAdvisors -->
    <property name="InterceptorNames" value="CacheAspect"/>
  </object>
  
  
  <!-- default name is gemfire-cache -->
  <gfe:cache/>

  <gfe:pool id="gemfire-pool" subscription-enabled="true">
    <gfe:server host="localhost" port="40404"/>    
  </gfe:pool>

  <gfe:client-region id="exampleregion" pool-name="gemfire-pool"  />
  
</objects>

Spring's CacheAspect class implements the IAdvisors interface, so that it can define multiple IAdvisors, one for each of the attributes used in the caching advice: [CacheResult], [CacheParameter] and [InvalidateCache]. The InventorRepository class is shown below, it is backed by a simple dictionary, but in a real world scenario it would be backed by a database.

    [Serializable]
    [Repository]
    public sealed class InventorRepository : IInventorRepository
    {
        private IDictionary inventors = new ListDictionary();

        public InventorRepository()
        {
            Inventor tesla = new Inventor("Nikola Tesla", new DateTime(1856, 7, 9), null);
            Inventor pupin = new Inventor("Mihajlo Pupin", new DateTime(1854, 10, 9), null);
            inventors.Add("Nikola Tesla", tesla);
            inventors.Add("Mihajlo Pupin", pupin);
        }

        [CacheResultItems("inventors", "Name")]
        public IList GetAll()
        {
            return new ArrayList(inventors.Values);
        }


        [CacheResult(CacheName = "inventors")]
        public IList GetAllNoCacheKey()
        {
            return new ArrayList(inventors.Values);
        }

        [CacheResult("inventors", "#name")]
        public Inventor Load(string name)
        {
            return (Inventor)inventors[name];
        }

        public void Save([CacheParameter("inventors", "Name")] Inventor inventor)
        {
            inventor.Nationality = "Serbian";
        }

        [InvalidateCache("inventors", Keys = "#inventor.Name")]
        public void Delete(Inventor inventor)
        {
        }

        [InvalidateCache("inventors")]
        public void DeleteAll()
        {
        }
    }

The IInventorRepository interface is shown below. Inventors have the [Serializable] attribute applies to them.

    public interface IInventorRepository
    {
        IList GetAll();
        IList GetAllNoCacheKey();
        Inventor Load(string name);
        void Save(Inventor inventor);
        void Delete(Inventor inventor);
        void DeleteAll();
    }