content: /*
   * Copyright (c) 2015. Rick Hightower, Geoff Chandler
   *
   * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   * You may obtain a copy of the License at
   *
   *  		http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
   *
   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
   * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
   * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
   * limitations under the License.
   *
   * QBit - The Microservice lib for Java : JSON, WebSocket, REST. Be The Web!
   */
  
  package io.advantageous.qbit.annotation;
  
  import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
  import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
  import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
  import java.lang.annotation.Target;
  
  /**
   * EventChannel marks an interface as an event channel.
   * An event channel is a two way pipe where on can publish and listen to events.
   * <p>
   * created by rhightower on 2/11/15.
   */
  @Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE})
  @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
  public @interface EventChannel {
      /** The channel you want to listen to.
       * If you don't specify it, then we default to the
       * fully qualified class name of teh event channel plus method names.
       **/
      ;
  
      String value() default "";
  }
  