001/* 002 * Copyright 2009 Red Hat, Inc. 003 * Red Hat licenses this file to you under the Apache License, version 004 * 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 005 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 006 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 007 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 008 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 009 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or 010 * implied. See the License for the specific language governing 011 * permissions and limitations under the License. 012 */ 013 014package org.hornetq.api.core.client.loadbalance; 015 016/** 017 * A ConnectionLoadBalancingPolicy defines a policy to load balance between connections. 018 * 019 * @author <a href="mailto:tim.fox@jboss.com">Tim Fox</a> 020 */ 021public interface ConnectionLoadBalancingPolicy 022{ 023 /** 024 * Returns the selected index according to the policy implementation. 025 * 026 * @param max maximum position index that can be selected 027 */ 028 int select(int max); 029}