javax.jms
Interface Topic

All Superinterfaces:
Destination
All Known Subinterfaces:
TemporaryTopic
public interface Topic
extends Destination

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

Many publish/subscribe (pub/sub) providers group topics into hierarchies and provide various options for subscribing to parts of the hierarchy. The JMS API places no restriction on what a Topic object represents. It may be a leaf in a topic hierarchy, or it may be a larger part of the hierarchy.

The organization of topics and the granularity of subscriptions to them is an important part of a pub/sub application's architecture. The JMS API does not specify a policy for how this should be done. If an application takes advantage of a provider-specific topic-grouping mechanism, it should document this. If the application is installed using a different provider, it is the job of the administrator to construct an equivalent topic architecture and create equivalent Topic objects.

Version:
1.1 - February 2, 2002
Author:
Mark Hapner, Rich Burridge, Kate Stout
See Also:
Session.createConsumer(Destination), Session.createProducer(Destination), TopicSession.createTopic(String)

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

Method Detail

getTopicName

public String getTopicName()
                    throws JMSException
Gets the name of this topic.

Clients that depend upon the name are not portable.

Returns:
the topic name
Throws:
JMSException - if the JMS provider implementation of Topic fails to return the topic 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 topic
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