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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();
}
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