Clarification around creating / destroying caches

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I'm trying to understand how the lifecycles of caches and regions are managed for the client-server model. I see that RegionFactory has a createRegion(String name) method. Does this handle region lifecycles on the servers or just create an instance of the Region class associated with a region on the servers? If I want multiple clients to access the same region, can they just call RegionFactory.createRegion() with the same region name? What if I want to create and destroy regions programmatically from the client? Thanks!

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '15 at 19:21

Does this handle region lifecycles on the servers or just create an instance of the Region class associated with a region on the servers?

It just creates a Region instance on the client, you will have use cache.xml or gfsh to create the region on the server.

If I want multiple clients to access the same region, can they just call RegionFactory.createRegion() with the same region name?

Yes.

What if I want to create and destroy regions programmatically from the client?

You could use Function execution to create a region programmatically from a client.

Clarification around creating / destroying caches

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