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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="Java-Broker-Management-Managing-Consumers">
  <title>Consumers</title>
  <para>A Consumer represents an application's live <emphasis>subcription</emphasis> to a queue.  Its presence
    in the model indicates that an application is currently connected to the queue <emphasis>at this moment</emphasis>.
  </para>
  <section xml:id="Java-Broker-Management-Managing-Consumers-Context">
    <title>Context</title>
    <para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para><emphasis>consumer.suspendNotificationPeriod</emphasis> Governs the length of
           time that a consumer may remain suspended before the the Broker begins to
           produce <link linkend="Java-Broker-Appendix-Operation-Logging-Message-SUB-1003">SUB-1003</link>
            operational log messages.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </para>
  </section>
</section>