javax.jms
Interface Queue

All Superinterfaces:
Destination
All Known Subinterfaces:
TemporaryQueue
public interface Queue
extends Destination

A Queue object encapsulates a provider-specific queue name. It is the way a client specifies the identity of a queue to JMS API methods. For those methods that use a Destination as a parameter, a Queue object used as an argument. For example, a queue can be used to create a MessageConsumer and a MessageProducer by calling:

The actual length of time messages are held by a queue and the consequences of resource overflow are not defined by the JMS API.

Version:
1.1 February 2 - 2000
Author:
Mark Hapner, Rich Burridge, Kate Stout
See Also:
Session.createConsumer(Destination), Session.createProducer(Destination), Session.createQueue(String), QueueSession.createQueue(String)

Method Summary
 String getQueueName()
          Gets the name of this queue.
 String toString()
          Returns a string representation of this object.
 

Method Detail

getQueueName

public String getQueueName()
                    throws JMSException
Gets the name of this queue.

Clients that depend upon the name are not portable.

Returns:
the queue name
Throws:
JMSException - if the JMS provider implementation of Queue fails to return the queue name due to some internal error.

toString

public String toString()
Returns a string representation of this object.

Returns:
the provider-specific identity values for this queue
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