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/*
 * @(#)Consumer.java	1.4 06/29/07
 */

package com.sun.messaging.jmq.jmsservice;

import com.sun.messaging.jmq.io.JMSPacket;

/**
 *
 */
public interface Consumer {

    /**
     * Deliver a message to the consumer to be processed.
     * <p>
     * Except in the special case of consumer in closing and the message is neither delivered nor acked to throw a
     * ConsumerClosedNoDeliveryException, the implementation of this method must not throw any exceptions, and it must catch
     * any exceptions, and either redeliver the message according to the redelivery configuration or it must acknowledge
     * this message. It can acknowledge this message to the dead message queue if the redelivery attempts are unsuccessful.
     *
     * @param msgPkt The JMSPacket to be processed
     *
     * @return The JMSAck if the delivered message is to be acknowledged upon returning from this method.<br>
     * If this is {@code null} then the message will be acknowledged separately.
     * @throw ConsumerClosedRuntimeException
     */
    public JMSAck deliver(JMSPacket msgPkt) throws ConsumerClosedNoDeliveryException;

}
