# Configure EMS Transports for TIBCO FTL

EMS transports mediate the flow of messages between TIBCO Enterprise Message Service and TIBCO FTL.

Note: In TIBCO FTL, transport refers to the underlying mechanism that moves message data between FTL publishers and subscribers.

In TIBCO Enterprise Message Service, a transport is a more narrowly defined concept, referring specifically to the connections between an EMS server and an external system.

The EMS server joins a TIBCO FTL realm as any other TIBCO FTL client would. EMS transport definitions (in the file transports.conf) configure the behavior of these connections.

All messages received from the transports for TIBCO FTL that are configured in the transports.conf file are processed in a single TIBCO FTL event queue.

After being dispatched from the TIBCO FTL event queue, all TIBCO FTL messages that are imported through an EMS transport are processed by the EMS server. The EMS server creates JMS message copies of the incoming TIBCO FTL messages and begins processing them as EMS messages. EMS transports for TIBCO FTL determine how the messages are converted to EMS messages.

If the EMS server cannot keep up with the rate of incoming TIBCO FTL messages, by default, the FTL library begins discarding incoming messages.

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