1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.kcb.service;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.kcb.bo.MessageDelivery;
19
20 /**
21 * The EmailService class is responsible for actually sending email messages to recipients.
22 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
23 */
24 public interface EmailService {
25 /**
26 * This service method is responsible for sending a Email notification for the given user.
27 * @param messageDelivery
28 * @param recipientEmailAddress
29 * @param emailFormat
30 * @return Long - the id of the email message
31 */
32 public Long sendEmail(MessageDelivery messageDelivery, String recipientEmailAddress, String emailFormat) throws Exception;
33 }