Using a new data access technology requires not just accommodating to a new API but also handling exceptions specific to that technology. To accommodate this case, Spring Framework provides a technology agnostic, consistent exception hierarchy that abstracts one from proprietary exceptions to a set of focused data access exceptions. As mentioned in the Spring Framework documentation, exception translation can be applied transparently to your data access objects through the use of the [Repository] attribute and AOP by defining a PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor object. The same exception translation functionality is enabled when using GemFire as long as at least a CacheFactoryObject is declared. The Cache factory acts as an exception translator which is automatically detected by the Spring infrastructure and used accordingly.