Web Service Development Guide : PART IV Extending your Applications : Chapter 11 Custom Transports and Listeners
Chapter 11 Custom Transports and Listeners
Overview
This chapter examines the mechanism for creating, configuring, and using transports and listeners when developing Web services.
Transports are used to invoke a Web service and are easily pluggable so that a service can dynamically select the transport at runtime, with no need to edit or recompile any code.
Listeners are used in standalone server implementations and client-side code to listen for messages arriving from a server, the latter in the notification pattern or in the solicit-response pattern. They too are dynamic and can be easily changed or selected at runtime.
These are the topics discussed in this chapter:
format and function of the transport and listener configuration files
specifying and altering transport and listener properties
making transports or listeners dynamic
creating a custom transport (“Creating a Transport” ) and listener (“Creating a Listener” )