camel-core/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/Processor.java

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package org.apache.camel;

/**
 * A <a href="http://activemq.apache.org/camel/processor.html">processor</a> is
 * used to implement the <a
 * href="http://activemq.apache.org/camel/event-driven-consumer.html">Event
 * Driven Consumer</a> and <a
 * href="http://activemq.apache.org/camel/message-transformer.html">Message
 * Transformer</a> patterns and to process message exchanges.
 * 
 * @version $Revision$
 */
public interface Processor {

    /**
     * Processes the message exchange
     * 
     * @throws Exception if an internal processing error has occurred.
     */
    void process(Exchange exchange) throws Exception;
}