PoolFactory (GemFire Java API Documentation)

```
public interface PoolFactory
```
This interface provides for the configuration and creation of instances of Pool.
Every pool needs to have at least one locator or server added to it. Locators should be added unless direct connections to bridge servers are desired.
The setter methods are used to specify non-default values for the other pool properties.
Once it is configured create(java.lang.String) will produce an instance.
The factory can be restored to its default configuration by calling reset().
Instances of this interface can be created by calling PoolManager.createFactory().
If a subscription is going to be made using a pool then subscriptions must be enabled on the pool. Subscriptions are made using these APIs:
Since:

5.7

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type	Field and Description
`static int`	`DEFAULT_FREE_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT` The default amount of time, in milliseconds, which we will wait for a free connection if max connections is set and all of the connections are in use.
`static long`	`DEFAULT_IDLE_TIMEOUT` The default amount of time in milliseconds, to wait for a connection to become idle Current value: `5000`.
`static int`	`DEFAULT_LOAD_CONDITIONING_INTERVAL` The default interval in which the pool will check to see if a connection to a given server should be moved to a different server to improve the load balance.
`static int`	`DEFAULT_MAX_CONNECTIONS` The default maximum number of connections to create Current value: `-1`.
`static int`	`DEFAULT_MIN_CONNECTIONS` The default number of connections to initially create Current value: `1`.
`static boolean`	`DEFAULT_MULTIUSER_AUTHENTICATION` The default value for whether to use multiuser mode.
`static long`	`DEFAULT_PING_INTERVAL` The default frequency, in milliseconds, to ping servers.
`static boolean`	`DEFAULT_PR_SINGLE_HOP_ENABLED` The default value for whether to have single hop optimisations enabled.
`static int`	`DEFAULT_READ_TIMEOUT` The default amount of time, in milliseconds, to wait for a response from a server Current value: `10000`.
`static int`	`DEFAULT_RETRY_ATTEMPTS` The default number of times to retry an operation after a timeout or exception.
`static String`	`DEFAULT_SERVER_GROUP` The default server group.
`static int`	`DEFAULT_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE` Default size in bytes of the socket buffer on each connection established.
`static int`	`DEFAULT_STATISTIC_INTERVAL` The default frequency, in milliseconds, that client statistics will be sent to the server.
`static int`	`DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_ACK_INTERVAL` The default amount of time, in milliseconds, to wait before sending an acknowledgement to the server about events received from the subscriptions.
`static boolean`	`DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_ENABLED` The default value for whether to establish a server to client subscription.
`static int`	`DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_MESSAGE_TRACKING_TIMEOUT` The default amount of time, in milliseconds, that messages sent from a server to a client will be tracked.
`static int`	`DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_REDUNDANCY` The default redundancy for servers holding subscriptions established by this client Current value: `0`.
`static boolean`	`DEFAULT_THREAD_LOCAL_CONNECTIONS` The default value for whether connections should have affinity to the thread that last used them.

Method Summary

Methods
Modifier and Type	Method and Description
`PoolFactory`	`addLocator(String host, int port)` Add a locator, given its host and port, to this factory.
`PoolFactory`	`addServer(String host, int port)` Add a server, given its host and port, to this factory.
`Pool`	`create(String name)` Create a new Pool for connecting a client to a set of GemFire Cache Servers.
`PoolFactory`	`reset()` Resets the configuration of this factory to its defaults.
`PoolFactory`	`setFreeConnectionTimeout(int connectionTimeout)` Sets the free connection timeout for this pool.
`PoolFactory`	`setIdleTimeout(long idleTimeout)` Set the amount of time a connection can be idle before expiring the connection.
`PoolFactory`	`setLoadConditioningInterval(int loadConditioningInterval)` Sets the load conditioning interval for this pool.
`PoolFactory`	`setMaxConnections(int maxConnections)` Set the max number of client to server connections that the pool will create.
`PoolFactory`	`setMinConnections(int minConnections)` Set the minimum number of connections to keep available at all times.
`PoolFactory`	`setMultiuserAuthentication(boolean enabled)` If set to `true` then the created pool can be used by multiple authenticated users.
`PoolFactory`	`setPingInterval(long pingInterval)` How often to ping servers to verify that they are still alive.
`PoolFactory`	`setPRSingleHopEnabled(boolean enabled)` By default setPRSingleHopEnabled is `true` in which case the client is aware of the location of partitions on servers hosting `regions` with `DataPolicy.PARTITION`.
`PoolFactory`	`setReadTimeout(int timeout)` Sets the number of milliseconds to wait for a response from a server before timing out the operation and trying another server (if any are available).
`PoolFactory`	`setRetryAttempts(int retryAttempts)` Set the number of times to retry a request after timeout/exception.
`PoolFactory`	`setServerGroup(String group)` Configures the group that all servers this pool connects to must belong to.
`PoolFactory`	`setSocketBufferSize(int bufferSize)` Sets the socket buffer size for each connection made in this pool.
`PoolFactory`	`setStatisticInterval(int statisticInterval)` How often to send client statistics to the server.
`PoolFactory`	`setSubscriptionAckInterval(int ackInterval)` Sets the interval in milliseconds to wait before sending acknowledgements to the bridge server for events received from the server subscriptions.
`PoolFactory`	`setSubscriptionEnabled(boolean enabled)` If set to `true` then the created pool will have server-to-client subscriptions enabled.
`PoolFactory`	`setSubscriptionMessageTrackingTimeout(int messageTrackingTimeout)` Sets the messageTrackingTimeout attribute which is the time-to-live period, in milliseconds, for subscription events the client has received from the server.
`PoolFactory`	`setSubscriptionRedundancy(int redundancy)` Sets the redundancy level for this pools server-to-client subscriptions.
`PoolFactory`	`setThreadLocalConnections(boolean threadLocalConnections)` Sets the thread local connections policy for this pool.

- Field Detail
  - DEFAULT_FREE_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT
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static final int DEFAULT_FREE_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT
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    The default amount of time, in milliseconds, which we will wait for a free connection if max connections is set and all of the connections are in use.
    Current value: 10000.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_LOAD_CONDITIONING_INTERVAL
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static final int DEFAULT_LOAD_CONDITIONING_INTERVAL
```
    The default interval in which the pool will check to see if a connection to a given server should be moved to a different server to improve the load balance.
    Current value: 300,000 (which is 5 minutes).
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE
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static final int DEFAULT_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE
```
    Default size in bytes of the socket buffer on each connection established.
    Current value: 32768.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_READ_TIMEOUT
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static final int DEFAULT_READ_TIMEOUT
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    The default amount of time, in milliseconds, to wait for a response from a server
    Current value: 10000.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_MIN_CONNECTIONS
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static final int DEFAULT_MIN_CONNECTIONS
```
    The default number of connections to initially create
    Current value: 1.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_MAX_CONNECTIONS
```
static final int DEFAULT_MAX_CONNECTIONS
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    The default maximum number of connections to create
    Current value: -1.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_IDLE_TIMEOUT
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static final long DEFAULT_IDLE_TIMEOUT
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    The default amount of time in milliseconds, to wait for a connection to become idle
    Current value: 5000.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_RETRY_ATTEMPTS
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static final int DEFAULT_RETRY_ATTEMPTS
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    The default number of times to retry an operation after a timeout or exception.
    Current value: -1.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_PING_INTERVAL
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static final long DEFAULT_PING_INTERVAL
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    The default frequency, in milliseconds, to ping servers.
    Current value: 10000.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_STATISTIC_INTERVAL
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static final int DEFAULT_STATISTIC_INTERVAL
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    The default frequency, in milliseconds, that client statistics will be sent to the server.
    Current value: -1.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_THREAD_LOCAL_CONNECTIONS
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static final boolean DEFAULT_THREAD_LOCAL_CONNECTIONS
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    The default value for whether connections should have affinity to the thread that last used them.
    Current value: false.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_ENABLED
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static final boolean DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_ENABLED
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    The default value for whether to establish a server to client subscription.
    Current value: false.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_REDUNDANCY
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static final int DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_REDUNDANCY
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    The default redundancy for servers holding subscriptions established by this client
    Current value: 0.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_MESSAGE_TRACKING_TIMEOUT
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static final int DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_MESSAGE_TRACKING_TIMEOUT
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    The default amount of time, in milliseconds, that messages sent from a server to a client will be tracked. The tracking is done to minimize duplicate events.
    Current value: 900000.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_ACK_INTERVAL
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static final int DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_ACK_INTERVAL
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    The default amount of time, in milliseconds, to wait before sending an acknowledgement to the server about events received from the subscriptions.
    Current value: 100.
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_SERVER_GROUP
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static final String DEFAULT_SERVER_GROUP
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    The default server group.
    Current value: "".
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_PR_SINGLE_HOP_ENABLED
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static final boolean DEFAULT_PR_SINGLE_HOP_ENABLED
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    The default value for whether to have single hop optimisations enabled.
    Current value: true.
    
    Since:
    
    6.5
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
  - DEFAULT_MULTIUSER_AUTHENTICATION
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static final boolean DEFAULT_MULTIUSER_AUTHENTICATION
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    The default value for whether to use multiuser mode.
    Current value: false.
    
    Since:
    
    6.5
    
    See Also:
    Constant Field Values
- Method Detail
  - setFreeConnectionTimeout
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PoolFactory setFreeConnectionTimeout(int connectionTimeout)
```
    Sets the free connection timeout for this pool. If the pool has a max connections setting, operations will block if all of the connections are in use. The free connection timeout specifies how long those operations will block waiting for a free connection before receiving an AllConnectionsInUseException. If max connections is not set this setting has no effect.
    
    Parameters:
    connectionTimeout - the connection timeout in milliseconds
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if connectionTimeout is less than or equal to 0.
    See Also:
    setMaxConnections(int)
  - setLoadConditioningInterval
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PoolFactory setLoadConditioningInterval(int loadConditioningInterval)
```
    Sets the load conditioning interval for this pool. This interval controls how frequently the pool will check to see if a connection to a given server should be moved to a different server to improve the load balance.
    A value of -1 disables load conditioning
    
    Parameters:
    loadConditioningInterval - the connection lifetime in milliseconds
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if connectionLifetime is less than -1.
  - setSocketBufferSize
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PoolFactory setSocketBufferSize(int bufferSize)
```
    Sets the socket buffer size for each connection made in this pool. Large messages can be received and sent faster when this buffer is larger. Larger buffers also optimize the rate at which servers can send events for client subscriptions.
    
    Parameters:
    bufferSize - the size of the socket buffers used for reading and writing on each connection in this pool.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if bufferSize is less than or equal to 0.
  - setThreadLocalConnections
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PoolFactory setThreadLocalConnections(boolean threadLocalConnections)
```
    Sets the thread local connections policy for this pool. If true then any time a thread goes to use a connection from this pool it will check a thread local cache and see if it already has a connection in it. If so it will use it. If not it will get one from this pool and cache it in the thread local. This gets rid of thread contention for the connections but increases the number of connections the servers see.
    If false then connections are returned to the pool as soon as the operation being done with the connection completes. This allows connections to be shared amonst multiple threads keeping the number of connections down.
    
    Parameters:
    threadLocalConnections - if true then enable thread local connections.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
  - setReadTimeout
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PoolFactory setReadTimeout(int timeout)
```
    Sets the number of milliseconds to wait for a response from a server before timing out the operation and trying another server (if any are available).
    
    Parameters:
    timeout - number of milliseconds to wait for a response from a server
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if timeout is less than 0.
  - setMinConnections
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PoolFactory setMinConnections(int minConnections)
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    Set the minimum number of connections to keep available at all times. When the pool is created, it will create this many connections. If 0 then connections will not be made until an actual operation is done that requires client-to-server communication.
    
    Parameters:
    minConnections - the initial number of connections this pool will create.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if minConnections is less than 0.
  - setMaxConnections
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PoolFactory setMaxConnections(int maxConnections)
```
    Set the max number of client to server connections that the pool will create. If all of the connections are in use, an operation requiring a client to server connection will block until a connection is available.
    
    Parameters:
    maxConnections - the maximum number of connections in the pool. this pool will create. -1 indicates that there is no maximum number of connections
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if maxConnections is less than minConnections.
    See Also:
    setFreeConnectionTimeout(int)
  - setIdleTimeout
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PoolFactory setIdleTimeout(long idleTimeout)
```
    Set the amount of time a connection can be idle before expiring the connection. If the pool size is greater than the minimum specified by setMinConnections(int), connections which have been idle for longer than the idleTimeout will be closed.
    
    Parameters:
    idleTimeout - The amount of time in milliseconds that an idle connection should live before expiring. -1 indicates that connections should never expire.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if idleTimout is less than -1.
  - setRetryAttempts
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PoolFactory setRetryAttempts(int retryAttempts)
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    Set the number of times to retry a request after timeout/exception.
    
    Parameters:
    retryAttempts - The number of times to retry a request after timeout/exception. -1 indicates that a request should be tried against every available server before failing
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if retryAttempts is less than -1.
  - setPingInterval
```
PoolFactory setPingInterval(long pingInterval)
```
    How often to ping servers to verify that they are still alive. Each server will be sent a ping every pingInterval if there has not been any other communication with the server. These pings are used by the server to monitor the health of the client. Make sure that the pingInterval is less than the maximum time between pings allowed by the bridge server.
    
    Parameters:
    pingInterval - The amount of time in milliseconds between pings.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if pingInterval is less than or equal to 0.
    See Also:
    CacheServer.setMaximumTimeBetweenPings(int)
  - setStatisticInterval
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PoolFactory setStatisticInterval(int statisticInterval)
```
    How often to send client statistics to the server. Doing this allows gfmon to monitor clients.
    A value of -1 disables the sending of client statistics to the server.
    
    Parameters:
    statisticInterval - The amount of time in milliseconds between sends of client statistics to the server.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if statisticInterval is less than -1.
  - setServerGroup
```
PoolFactory setServerGroup(String group)
```
    Configures the group that all servers this pool connects to must belong to.
    
    Parameters:
    group - the server group that this pool will connect to. If null or "" then all servers will be connected to.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
  - addLocator
```
PoolFactory addLocator(String host,
                     int port)
```
    Add a locator, given its host and port, to this factory. The locator must be a server locator and will be used to discover other running bridge servers and locators.
    
    Parameters:
    host - the host name or ip address that the locator is listening on.
    port - the port that the locator is listening on
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if host is an unknown host according to InetAddress.getByName(String) or if port is outside the valid range of [1..65535] inclusive.
    
    IllegalStateException - if a server has already been added to this factory.
  - addServer
```
PoolFactory addServer(String host,
                    int port)
```
    Add a server, given its host and port, to this factory. The server must be a bridge server and this client will directly connect to without consulting a server locator.
    
    Parameters:
    host - the host name or ip address that the server is listening on.
    port - the port that the server is listening on
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if host is an unknown host according to InetAddress.getByName(String) or if port is outside the valid range of [1..65535] inclusive.
    
    IllegalStateException - if a locator has already been added to this factory.
  - setSubscriptionEnabled
```
PoolFactory setSubscriptionEnabled(boolean enabled)
```
    If set to true then the created pool will have server-to-client subscriptions enabled. If set to false then all Subscription* attributes are ignored at create time.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
  - setSubscriptionRedundancy
```
PoolFactory setSubscriptionRedundancy(int redundancy)
```
    Sets the redundancy level for this pools server-to-client subscriptions. If 0 then no redundant copies will be kept on the servers. Otherwise an effort will be made to maintain the requested number of copies of the server-to-client subscriptions. At most one copy per server will be made up to the requested level.
    
    Parameters:
    redundancy - the number of redundant servers for this client's subscriptions.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if redundancyLevel is less than -1.
  - setSubscriptionMessageTrackingTimeout
```
PoolFactory setSubscriptionMessageTrackingTimeout(int messageTrackingTimeout)
```
    Sets the messageTrackingTimeout attribute which is the time-to-live period, in milliseconds, for subscription events the client has received from the server. It's used to minimize duplicate events. Entries that have not been modified for this amount of time are expired from the list
    
    Parameters:
    messageTrackingTimeout - number of milliseconds to set the timeout to.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if messageTrackingTimeout is less than or equal to 0.
  - setSubscriptionAckInterval
```
PoolFactory setSubscriptionAckInterval(int ackInterval)
```
    Sets the interval in milliseconds to wait before sending acknowledgements to the bridge server for events received from the server subscriptions.
    
    Parameters:
    ackInterval - number of milliseconds to wait before sending event acknowledgements.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalArgumentException - if ackInterval is less than or equal to 0.
  - reset
```
PoolFactory reset()
```
    Resets the configuration of this factory to its defaults.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
  - create
```
Pool create(String name)
```
    Create a new Pool for connecting a client to a set of GemFire Cache Servers. using this factory's settings for attributes.
    
    Parameters:
    name - the name of the pool, used when connecting regions to it
    
    Returns:
    the newly created pool.
    
    Throws:
    
    IllegalStateException - if a pool with name already exists
    
    IllegalStateException - if a locator or server has not been added.
  - setPRSingleHopEnabled
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PoolFactory setPRSingleHopEnabled(boolean enabled)
```
    By default setPRSingleHopEnabled is true in which case the client is aware of the location of partitions on servers hosting regions with DataPolicy.PARTITION. Using this information, the client routes the client cache operations directly to the server which is hosting the required partition for the cache operation using a single network hop. This mode works best when setMaxConnections(int) is set to -1 which is the default. This mode causes the client to have more connections to the servers.
    If setPRSingleHopEnabled is false the client may need to do an extra network hop on servers to go to the required partition for that cache operation. The client will use fewer network connections to the servers.
    Caution: for partition regions with local-max-memory equal to zero, no cache operations mentioned above will be routed to those servers as they do not host any partitions.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    Since:
    
    6.5
  - setMultiuserAuthentication
```
PoolFactory setMultiuserAuthentication(boolean enabled)
```
    If set to true then the created pool can be used by multiple authenticated users.
    This setting should only be used for applications that require the client to authenticate itself with the server multiple users.
    Note: If set to true, all the client side regions must have their data-policy set to empty.
    
    Returns:
    a reference to this
    Since:
    
    6.5
    
    See Also:
    ClientCache.createAuthenticatedView(java.util.Properties)

Interface PoolFactory

Field Summary

Method Summary

Field Detail

DEFAULT_FREE_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT

DEFAULT_LOAD_CONDITIONING_INTERVAL

DEFAULT_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE

DEFAULT_READ_TIMEOUT

DEFAULT_MIN_CONNECTIONS

DEFAULT_MAX_CONNECTIONS

DEFAULT_IDLE_TIMEOUT

DEFAULT_RETRY_ATTEMPTS

DEFAULT_PING_INTERVAL

DEFAULT_STATISTIC_INTERVAL

DEFAULT_THREAD_LOCAL_CONNECTIONS

DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_ENABLED

DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_REDUNDANCY

DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_MESSAGE_TRACKING_TIMEOUT

DEFAULT_SUBSCRIPTION_ACK_INTERVAL

DEFAULT_SERVER_GROUP

DEFAULT_PR_SINGLE_HOP_ENABLED

DEFAULT_MULTIUSER_AUTHENTICATION

Method Detail

setFreeConnectionTimeout

setLoadConditioningInterval

setSocketBufferSize

setThreadLocalConnections

setReadTimeout

setMinConnections

setMaxConnections

setIdleTimeout

setRetryAttempts

setPingInterval

setStatisticInterval

setServerGroup

addLocator

addServer

setSubscriptionEnabled

setSubscriptionRedundancy

setSubscriptionMessageTrackingTimeout

setSubscriptionAckInterval

reset

create

setPRSingleHopEnabled

setMultiuserAuthentication