Implementation: Endpoints (Micro)

Administrators arrange transports to implement endpoints.

  • Transports
    While endpoints are abstract, transports do the real work, transferring message data between process instances of application programs. Within a program process, a transport carries messages outbound from the program’s publishers using an endpoint’s send and send inbox abilities, and carries messages inbound to the program’s subscribers using the endpoint’s receive and receive inbox abilities.
  • Transport Connectors
    A transport connector is a configuration within an application instance definition, which binds a transport to the abilities of an endpoint.
  • Connectors to Cover Required Abilities
    When a connector binds a transport to an endpoint, in effect it binds the transport to a subset of the endpoint’s required abilities. To be useful, the set of connectors in an application instance definition must cover the set of abilities that a program requires for communication.
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