I thought the same thing, except that the org.springframework.data.gemfire.config.ParsingUtils class is package-private and therefore not accessible from the org.springframework.data.gemfire.PartitionedRegionFactoryBean.resolveDataPolicy method.  In addition, the ParsingUtils class seems very "configuration" centric.  Perhaps both the method I created above (isGemFireVersion65orHigher), which was based on the existing logic already in the PartitionedRegionFactoryBean class refactored into a method, as well as the isGemfireV7OrAbove() method should be moved to a more appropriate class like the GemfireCacheUtils class, or maybe even just a GemFireUtils class.  Thoughts?