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| package org.apache.camel; |
| |
| /** |
| * {@link org.apache.camel.Endpoint} can optionally implement this interface to |
| * indicate whether or not it supports multiple consumers or not. |
| * <p/> |
| * By default endpoints is assumed <b>not</b> to support multiple consumers. |
| * <p/> |
| * A rare few endpoint does in fact support multiple consumers and thus the purpose of this interface. |
| * For example JMS endpoints which has topics that can be consumed by multiple consumers. |
| * <p/> |
| * The purpose of this is to check on startup that we do not have multiple consumers |
| * for the <b>same</b> endpoints. This prevent starting up when there was a copy/paste mistakes in the Camel routes. |
| * |
| * @version $Revision$ |
| */ |
| public interface MultipleConsumersSupport { |
| |
| /** |
| * Is multiple consumers supported? |
| * |
| * @return <tt>true</tt> if multiple consumers is supported |
| */ |
| boolean isMultipleConsumersSupported(); |
| } |