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005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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016package org.kuali.rice.ken.service;
017
018
019/**
020 * This class is responsible for the job that will actually resolve which recipients receive a notification for specific endpoints.
021 * This service will be responsible for creating NotificationDeliveryMessage object instances to be used by a later process that actually 
022 * delivers the messages.
023 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
024 */
025public interface NotificationMessageDeliveryResolverService {
026    /**
027     * This service method is responsible for retrieving all unprocessed notifications that have sendDateTimes either equal to or before the 
028     * current time, and resolving their recipient lists so that proper NotificationMessageDelivery records can be created for them.  
029     * This service is to be run periodically in a separate thread, as a daemon process.
030     * @return int the number of resolved messages
031     */
032    public ProcessingResult resolveNotificationMessageDeliveries();
033}