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package org.apache.activemq.broker.region.policy;

import org.apache.activemq.broker.region.TopicSubscription;

/**
 * A pluggable strategy to calculate the maximum number of messages that are allowed to be pending on 
 * consumers (in addition to their prefetch sizes).
 * 
 * Once the limit is reached, non-durable topics can then start discarding old messages.
 * This allows us to keep dispatching messages to slow consumers while not blocking fast consumers
 * and discarding the messages oldest first.
 *  
 * @version $Revision$
 */
public interface PendingMessageLimitStrategy {

    /**
     * Calculate the maximum number of pending messages (in excess of the prefetch size)
     * for the given subscription
     * 
     * @return the maximum or -1 if there is no maximum
     */
    int getMaximumPendingMessageLimit(TopicSubscription subscription);

}
