I'm working on a new GemFire grid where we create dynamic subregions using user-provided information at runtime. Upon successful creation of a dynamic subregion across our grid, we store the subregion specifications in a predefined, replicated region (let's call it the MetaRegion).
We'd like to use the data from a replicated MetaRegion to recreate a tree of dynamically created subregions upon restarting a node or adding a new node. Because dynamically created subregions can contain other dynamically created subregions, we'll want to ensure we have the full set of MetaRegion information replicated locally and work through it in an orderly fashion when recreating the tree of subregions. Can we query the MetaRegion sometime during the bootstrapping process and reliably get all of the data? If not, what are our options for triggering an appropriate time to start using our replicated MetaRegion data?