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package javax.jms;
/** A {@code Destination} object encapsulates a provider-specific
* address.
* The JMS API does not define a standard address syntax. Although a standard
* address syntax was considered, it was decided that the differences in
* address semantics between existing message-oriented middleware (MOM)
* products were too wide to bridge with a single syntax.
*
* Since {@code Destination} is an administered object, it may
* contain
* provider-specific configuration information in addition to its address.
*
*
The JMS API also supports a client's use of provider-specific address
* names.
*
*
{@code Destination} objects support concurrent use.
*
*
A {@code Destination} object is a JMS administered object.
*
*
JMS administered objects are objects containing configuration
* information that are created by an administrator and later used by
* JMS clients. They make it practical to administer the JMS API in the
* enterprise.
*
*
Although the interfaces for administered objects do not explicitly
* depend on the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) API, the JMS API
* establishes the convention that JMS clients find administered objects by
* looking them up in a JNDI namespace.
*
*
An administrator can place an administered object anywhere in a
* namespace. The JMS API does not define a naming policy.
*
*
It is expected that JMS providers will provide the tools an
* administrator needs to create and configure administered objects in a
* JNDI namespace. JMS provider implementations of administered objects
* should implement the {@code javax.naming.Referenceable} and
* {@code java.io.Serializable} interfaces so that they can be stored in
* all JNDI naming contexts. In addition, it is recommended that these
* implementations follow the JavaBeansTM
* design patterns.
*
*
This strategy provides several benefits:
*
*
* - It hides provider-specific details from JMS clients.
*
- It abstracts JMS administrative information into objects in the Java
* programming language ("Java objects")
* that are easily organized and administered from a common
* management console.
*
- Since there will be JNDI providers for all popular naming
* services, JMS providers can deliver one implementation
* of administered objects that will run everywhere.
*
*
* An administered object should not hold on to any remote resources.
* Its lookup should not use remote resources other than those used by the
* JNDI API itself.
*
*
Clients should think of administered objects as local Java objects.
* Looking them up should not have any hidden side effects or use surprising
* amounts of local resources.
*
* @version 1.0 - 3 August 1998
* @author Mark Hapner
* @author Rich Burridge
*
* @see javax.jms.Queue
* @see javax.jms.Topic
*/
public interface Destination {
}