Queue.java

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package javax.jms;

/** A <CODE>Queue</CODE> object encapsulates a provider-specific queue name.
 * It is the way a client specifies the identity of a queue to JMS API methods.
 * For those methods that use a <CODE>Destination</CODE> as a parameter, a
 * <CODE>Queue</CODE> object used as an argument. For example, a queue can
 * be used  to create a <CODE>MessageConsumer</CODE> and a
 * <CODE>MessageProducer</CODE>  by calling:
 *<UL>
 *<LI> <CODE>Session.CreateConsumer(Destination destination)</CODE>
 *<LI> <CODE>Session.CreateProducer(Destination destination)</CODE>
 *
 *</UL>
 *
 * <P>The actual length of time messages are held by a queue and the
 * consequences of resource overflow are not defined by the JMS API.
 *
 *
 *
 * @version     1.1 February 2 - 2000
 * @author      Mark Hapner
 * @author      Rich Burridge
 * @author      Kate Stout
 *
 * @see Session#createConsumer(Destination)
 * @see Session#createProducer(Destination)
 * @see Session#createQueue(String)
 * @see QueueSession#createQueue(String)
 */

public interface Queue extends Destination
{

  /** Gets the name of this queue.
    *
    * <P>Clients that depend upon the name are not portable.
    *
    * @return the queue name
    *
    * @exception JMSException if the JMS provider implementation of
    *                         <CODE>Queue</CODE> fails to return the queue
    *                         name due to some internal
    *                         error.
    */

  String getQueueName() throws JMSException;

  /** Returns a string representation of this object.
    *
    * @return the provider-specific identity values for this queue
    */

  String toString();
}