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, and carries messages inbound to the program’s subscribers.
  • 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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