WAS v8.5 > Administer applications and their environment > Welcome to administering Messaging resources > Manage message-driven beans > Manage message listener resources for message-driven beans > Administer listener portsConfigure a listener port
Use this task to browse or change the properties of an existing listener port, which is used by message-driven beans associated with the port to retrieve messages.
To use message-driven beans with a messaging provider that does not have a JCA v1.5 or 1.6 resource adapter, we cannot use activation specifications and therefore configure your beans against a listener port. There are also a few scenarios in which, although you could use activation specifications, you might still choose to use listener ports. For example, for compatability with existing message-driven bean applications. For more information about when to use listener ports rather than activation specifications, see Message-driven beans, activation specifications, and listener ports. A listener port defines the association between a connection factory, a destination, and a deployed message-driven bean. This association enables deployed message-driven beans associated with the port to retrieve messages from the destination. For more information, see Message-driven beans - listener port components.
When you deploy an enterprise application to use message-driven beans with listener ports, we can browse or change the configuration of a listener port.
- Start the dmgr console.
- In the navigation pane, click Servers > Server Types > WebSphere application servers->server_name > [Communications] Messaging > Message listener service > [Additional Properties] Listener Ports > listener_port
The Message listener port page panel is displayed.
- Select the name of the listener port to work with. This displays the properties of the listener port in the content pane.
- Optional: Change properties for the listener port, according to your needs.
- Click OK.
- Save your changes to the master configuration.
- To have a changed configuration take effect, stop then restart the application server.
Subtopics
- Listener port settings
A listener port defines the association between a connection factory, a destination, and a deployed message-driven bean. This association enables deployed message-driven beans associated with the port to retrieve messages from the destination.
Related concepts:
Message-driven beans - listener port components
Related
Create a new listener port
Start a listener port
Stopping a listener port
Delete a listener port
Migrating a listener port to an activation specification for use with the WebSphere MQ messaging provider
Deploy an enterprise application to use message-driven beans with listener ports
Reference:
Message listener port page
Listener port settings