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package eu.aniketos.notification;
/**
* The Notification module defines the INotification interface to be used by components that wants to receive notifications
* regardless of which service the notifications concern. The Service runtime environment (SRE) should always implement this interface.
*
* @version 1.0
* @author Erlend Andreas Gjære (SINTEF), erlendandreas.gjare@sintef.no
*
*/
public interface INotification {
/**
* Receives a notification outside the regular subscription mechanism, for cases where message targeting
* is done better from the Notification module's perspective rather than from the subscriber's.
*
* @param alert Message object which contains the data about the notification, i.e. serviceId, alertType and value (required), and optionally description and threatId.
*/
public void alert(Notification alert);
}