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namespace Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ.Threads
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Represents a task that may take a few iterations to complete.
	/// </summary>
	public interface Task
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Performs some portion of the work that this Task object is
		/// assigned to complete.  When the task is entirely finished this
		/// method should return false. 
		/// </summary>
		/// <returns>
		/// A <see cref="System.Boolean"/> this indicates if this Task should 
		/// be run again.
		/// </returns>
		bool Iterate();
	}
}