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title:  Native Client Pool API
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The native client API allows your clients to create and manage connection pools. The server side does not have an API.

The primary native client API for pool management is `Apache.Geode.Client.Cache`. For complete information on the classes and interfaces described here, see the API documentation.

**Apache.Geode.Client.Cache**

-   `Pool` interface. API to retrieve pool attributes.
-   `PoolFactory` interface. API to configure pool attributes.
-   `PoolManager` interface. API to create a `PoolFactory` object and to find the pool objects.
-   `AttributesFactory` class. Has a new method `setPoolname` which assigns a pool to a region. Operations performed on the configured region use connections from the pool.

**Note:**
A region can have a pool attached to it. A pool may have multiple regions attached to it.