01: /*
02: * Copyright 1990-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
03: * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER
04: *
05: * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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07: * 2 only, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
08: *
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10: * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11: * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
12: * General Public License version 2 for more details (a copy is
13: * included at /legal/license.txt).
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23: */
24: package com.sun.jump.message;
25:
26: import java.io.IOException;
27: import com.sun.jump.message.JUMPTimedOutException;
28:
29: /**
30: * <code>JUMPMessageSender</code> defines the interface for an object
31: * that can forward messages to a target it represents.
32: *
33: * A <code>JUMPMessageSender</code> can handle both synchronous and
34: * asynchronous calls.
35: */
36: public interface JUMPMessageSender extends JUMPMessageResponseSender {
37: /**
38: * Send a message and wait for a response message.
39: *
40: * @param message the message to be sent
41: * @param timeout the time in milliseconds to wait, if there was no
42: * response.
43: */
44: public JUMPMessage sendMessage(JUMPOutgoingMessage message,
45: long timeout) throws JUMPTimedOutException, IOException;
46:
47: /**
48: * Send an asynchronous message.
49: *
50: * @param message the message to be sent
51: */
52: public void sendMessage(JUMPOutgoingMessage message)
53: throws IOException;
54: }
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