e> - if the Jakarta Messaging provider fails to retrieve the metadata due to some internal error.</dd>
</dl>
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<section class="detail" id="getProviderMajorVersion()">
<h3>getProviderMajorVersion</h3>
<div class="member-signature"><span class="return-type">int</span>&nbsp;<span class="element-name">getProviderMajorVersion</span>()
                     throws <span class="exceptions"><a href="JMSException.html" title="class in jakarta.jms">JMSException</a></span></div>
<div class="block">G