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package com.sun.ejb;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import com.sun.enterprise.resource.ResourceHandle;

/**
 * Lifecycle contract for a single MessageBeanListener. Implemented
 * by the MessageBeanContainer and called by the MessageBeanClient for
 * each message delivery.  Each message delivery MUST call each of the
 * three methods exactly once, in the same thread, and in the following 
 * order :
 *
 * 1. beforeMessageDelivery
 * 2. deliverMessage
 * 3. afterMessageDelivery
 *
 * 
 * @author Kenneth Saks
 */
public interface MessageBeanListener {

    /**
     * Pre-delivery notification to the container.  Any transaction 
     * initialization is peformed here.  In addition, when this method 
     * returns, the current thread's context class loader will be set 
     * the message-bean's application class loader.  
     *
     * @param method is the method that will be invoked during deliverMessage.
     * It is used the container during transaction setup to lookup the 
     * appropriate transaction attribute.
     * @param txImported whether a transaction is being imported
     * 
     */
    void beforeMessageDelivery(Method method, boolean txImported);
    
    /**
     * Deliver a message to a message bean instance.
     *
     * @param params to use of the method invocation.  Can be null or
     * an 0-length array if there are 0 arguments.
     *
     * @throws Throwable  This is either an application exception as thrown
     * from the message bean instance or a javax.ejb.EJBException in the case
     * that the bean throws a system exception.  Note that exceptions are 
     * *always* propagated, regardless of transaction type.  
     */
    Object deliverMessage(Object[] params) throws Throwable;

    /**
     * Post-delivery notification to the container.  Container will perform
     * any work required to commit/rollback a container-managed transaction.
     * When this method returns, the thread's context class loader will be
     * restored to the value it had when beforeMessageDelivery was called.
     */
    void afterMessageDelivery();

    ResourceHandle getResourceHandle();

    void setResourceHandle(ResourceHandle handle);

}