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  * Copyright 2007-2008 The Kuali Foundation

  * 

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

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 package org.kuali.rice.ken.service;

 /**

  * This class is responsible for the job that will actually resolve which recipients receive a notification for specific endpoints.

  * This service will be responsible for creating NotificationDeliveryMessage object instances to be used by a later process that actually 

  * delivers the messages.

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  */

 public interface NotificationMessageDeliveryResolverService {

     /**

      * This service method is responsible for retrieving all unprocessed notifications that have sendDateTimes either equal to or before the 

      * current time, and resolving their recipient lists so that proper NotificationMessageDelivery records can be created for them.  

      * This service is to be run periodically in a separate thread, as a daemon process.

      * @return int the number of resolved messages

      */

     public ProcessingResult resolveNotificationMessageDeliveries();

 }