Endpoint listeners [Collection]

An endpoint listener receives requests from service requester applications within a specific application server or cluster.

To view this page in the console, click the following path:

Servers -> Server Types -> WebSphere application servers -> server_name -> Endpoint listeners.

To browse or change the properties of a listed item, select its name in the list.

To act on one or more of the listed items, select the check boxes next to the names of the items to act on, use the buttons provided.

To change which entries are listed, or to change the level of detail that is displayed for those entries, use the Filter settings.

An endpoint listener is the point (address) at which incoming messages for a web service are received by a service integration bus. The endpoint listener acts as the ultimate receiver of a SOAP message. The resulting messages that pass across the service integration bus are not then SOAP messages, rather just the data and context that resulted from receiving the SOAP message. Each endpoint listener supports a particular binding. The endpoint listeners that are supplied with WebSphere Application Server support SOAP over HTTP and SOAP over JMS bindings.

Before we can use an endpoint listener, you must complete the following steps.

1. Install the endpoint listener application in WebSphere Application Server.

2. Configure the endpoint listener for an application server and (as part of the configuration) connect the endpoint listener to one or more available service integration buses.

3. On a service integration bus to which we have connected the endpoint listener:

   1. Configure an inbound service and (as part of the configuration) connect the service to a new inbound port.

   2. Associate the new inbound port with the newly-deployed endpoint listener.

A deployed endpoint listener is not used until you deploy a web service that uses the endpoint listener.

Name

The name of this endpoint listener.

URL root

The root of the URL that should be used to build the endpoint addresses within WSDL documents to direct requesters to this endpoint listener.

Description

An optional description of the endpoint listener.

Buttons

Button	Description
New	Create a new endpoint listener.
Delete	Delete the selected items.

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