| Java Client README |
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| Java Client is a lightweight gateway to Ignite nodes. |
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| Client communicates with grid nodes via REST interface and provides reduced but powerful subset of Ignite API. |
| Java Client allows to use Ignite features from devices and environments where fully-functional Ignite node |
| could not (or should not) be started. |
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| Client vs Grid Node |
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| Note that for performance and ease-of-use reasons, you should always prefer to start grid node in your cluster |
| instead of remote client. Grid node will generally perform a lot faster and can easily exhibit client-only |
| functionality by excluding it from task/job execution and from caching data. |
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| For example, you can prevent a grid node from participating in caching by setting |
| `CacheConfiguration.setDistributionMode(...)` value to either `CLIENT_ONLY` or `NEAR_ONLY`. |
