Hi,
I am a java devloper trying to explore Gemfire. I have downloaded the 60 days trial version with which I have executed almost all the quickstart examples and gone through few docs provided by gemstone/vmWare. Still I am not clear about few things, can anyone please answer my below given questions:
1. (Say) I have a database repository Repo, a service layer Srvc and n number of clients Clnt which sends m number of requests each to the srvc layer. The service layer exposes a number of services through webservices, making use of
data serialization, marshalling/unmarshalling & object conversion using jaxb.
Now, is it possible to replace the srvc layer with GemFire in any way? Does
Gemfire provide any or all of the functionalities mentioned above, if so, how
can we explore it with examples. Any link or document to cater the above mentioned needs would be helpful and depending upon which we can decide to
purchase a licensed version for the same.
2. Do we have any means of executing our customCode (a service retrieving data
from repo) with the help of FunctionExecution, if yes how? and if know than does it (FunctionExecution) operate only on the Gemfire code?
3. Does Gemfire provide any support for exposing webservices (through any means SOAP/REST etc.)?
4. Does Gemfire provide any support/APIs for executing database queries (by any means)?
5. Any other help related to GemFire apart from the docs/pdf file which itself is quite old?
Thanks,
Aqamah