switched to lookup tag and using the gemfire template

vfgf-quickstart/src/main/java/quickstart/DataEviction.java

@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@
 
 import javax.annotation.Resource;
 
+import org.springframework.data.gemfire.GemfireTemplate;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
 
-import com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.Region;
-
 /**
  * This example shows cached data eviction. Use eviction to keep a region size
  * in check when you can easily get the data again from an outside source. If
@@ -23,8 +22,8 @@
 @Component
 public class DataEviction {
 
-	@Resource(name = "exampleRegion")
-	private Region<String, String> exampleRegion;
+	@Resource(name = "exampleRegionTemplate")
+	private GemfireTemplate exampleRegionTemplate;
 
 	public void run() throws Exception {
 		System.out
@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ public void run() throws Exception {
 		System.out
 				.println("the puts and on any destroys done by the eviction controller.");
 		for (long i = 1; i < 13; i++) {
-			exampleRegion.put("key" + i, "value" + i);
+			exampleRegionTemplate.put("key" + i, "value" + i);
 			Thread.sleep(10);
 		}
 	}

vfgf-quickstart/src/main/resources/data-eviction-cache-context.xml

@@ -9,26 +9,12 @@
 		http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire/spring-gemfire.xsd">
 
 	<!-- GemFire cache bean -->
-	<gfe:cache properties-ref="props"/>
+	<gfe:cache properties-ref="props" cache-xml-location="xml/DataEviction.xml" />
+
 	<util:properties id="props" location="cache.properties"/>
 
-	<bean id="exampleRegion" class="org.springframework.data.gemfire.RegionFactoryBean"
-		p:cache-ref="gemfire-cache">
-		<property name="cacheListeners">
-			<array>
-				<bean class="quickstart.SimpleCacheListener" />
-			</array>
-		</property>
-		<property name="attributes">
-			<bean class="org.springframework.data.gemfire.RegionAttributesFactoryBean">
-				<property name="evictionAttributes">
-					<bean class="com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.EvictionAttributes" factory-method="createLRUEntryAttributes">
-						<constructor-arg value="10" />
-						<constructor-arg value="LOCAL_DESTROY" />
-					</bean>
-				</property>
-			</bean>
-		</property>
-	</bean>
+	<gfe:lookup-region id="exampleRegion" name="exampleRegion"/>
+
+	<bean id="exampleRegionTemplate" class="org.springframework.data.gemfire.GemfireTemplate" p:region-ref="exampleRegion"/>
 
 </beans>

vfgf-quickstart/src/main/resources/xml/DataEviction.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE cache PUBLIC
+    "-//GemStone Systems, Inc.//GemFire Declarative Caching 6.5//EN"
+    "http://www.gemstone.com/dtd/cache6_5.dtd">
+
+<!--
+  | DataEviction.xml
+  |
+  | Configures a region to destroy entries when the region reaches 
+  | a certain capacity. Includes a listener to report on the activity. 
+ -->
+<cache>
+	<region name="exampleRegion">
+		<region-attributes>
+			<cache-listener>
+				<class-name>quickstart.SimpleCacheListener</class-name>
+			</cache-listener>
+			<eviction-attributes>
+				<lru-entry-count maximum="10" />
+				<!-- entry destruction is the default eviction action -->
+			</eviction-attributes>
+		</region-attributes>
+	</region>
+</cache>