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package org.drools.examples.broker.events;

import java.util.Date;

/**
 * An event interface for the feeder framework
 * 
 * This is really a very simple and quick way of doing. In the future we may use
 * the field accessors framework that we use in drools to make this transparent
 */
public interface Event<T> {
    
    /**
     * Returns the timestamp from this event
     * 
     * @return
     */
    public long getTimestamp();
    
    /**
     * This is the same as getTimestamp, but returns a Date 
     * object instead
     * 
     * @return
     */
    public Date getDate();

    /**
     * Returns this event's actual object
     * 
     * @return
     */
    public T getObject();

}
