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+/*
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ *
+ */
+package org.apache.qpid.protocol;
+
+import org.apache.qpid.framing.ProtocolVersion;
+
+/**
+ * ProtocolVersionAware is implemented by all AMQP handling classes, that need to provide an awareness to callers of
+ * the version of the AMQP protocol that they are able to handle.
+ *
+ * <p/><table id="crc"><caption>CRC Card</caption>
+ * <tr><th> Responsibilities
+ * <tr><td> Report the major and minor AMQP version handled.
+ * </table>
+ */
+public interface ProtocolVersionAware
+{
+    /**
+     * @deprecated
+     * Reports the AMQP minor version, that the implementer can handle.
+     *
+     * @return The AMQP minor version.
+     */
+    public byte getProtocolMinorVersion();
+
+    /**
+     * @deprecated
+     * Reports the AMQP major version, that the implementer can handle.
+     *
+     * @return The AMQP major version.
+     */
+    public byte getProtocolMajorVersion();
+
+    public ProtocolVersion getProtocolVersion();
+}