Service Listeners

A service listener object contains a network address that accepts incoming client requests on behalf of services. A service can have multiple listeners, and a listener can accept client requests on behalf of multiple services.

Each service listener is associated with a connector. This is software that contains the logic for processing the type of requests the listener will handle.

You can configure a service listener to use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), a facility for secure, encrypted communication and checking online identities. For an introduction to SSL, see your Secure Communications book.

Enterprise Server comes with several connectors, including:

• The soap connector, which handles both Web Services SOAP requests and the Micro Focus Binary Protocol used for J2EE requests
• The http-switch connector, which provides simple web server capabilities and is used for service deployment
• The http-echo connector, which responds to HTTP requests with a short HTML reply and can be used for connection testing

For more information about service listeners, see the chapter Communications Process and Service Listeners and the section Deployment Services and Listeners in the chapter Configuration.