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TIBCO Rendezvous® 8.8.0

# Listener

Class

## Superclasses

    System.Object
      Listener

## Visual Basic

    Public Class Listener

## C#

    public class Listener

## Purpose

Listen for inbound messages.

## Remarks

Each Listener object represents your program’s interest in a set of message events. When a matching message arrives, TIBCO Rendezvous places the message in the listener’s queue. Dispatch removes the first message from the queue, and raises a MessageReceived event. .NET calls the event handler delegates associated with the listener to process the message.

A listener object continues listening for messages until the program destroys it. The method Listener.Destroy destroys a listener explicitly, immediately canceling interest in messages. You can also destroy a listener implicitly by deleting all references to it, but the garbage collector might introduce a delay before it destroys the object and cancels interest.

Destroying the queue or transport of an listener automatically invalidates the listener as well.

Method | Description | Page
## Constructor
Listener | Create a listener object to listen for inbound messages. | Listener
Listener.Destroy | Destroy a listener, canceling interest. | Listener.Destroy

Member | Description |
## Public Instance Properties
``Queue`` | Queue The listener’s event queue. | Get
``Subject`` | ``string`` The listener expresses interest in this subject, and receives messages with matching destination subjects. | Get
``Transport`` | Transport The listener receives inbound messages from this transport. | Get
## Public Events
``MessageReceived`` | MessageReceivedEventHandler An inbound message arrived.

## Activation and Dispatch

Inbound messages on the transport that match the subject trigger the listener; dispatch raises a MessageReceived event.

The constructor creates a listener object, and activates the event—that is, it begins listening for all inbound messages with matching subjects. When a message arrives, Rendezvous software places the message on the listener’s event queue. Dispatch removes the message from the queue, and raises a MessageReceived event; .NET runs the handler delegates to process the message. (To stop receiving inbound messages on the subject, destroy the listener object; this action cancels all messages already queued for the listener; see also Listener.Destroy.)

Listener Activation and Dispatch illustrates that messages can continue to accumulate in the queue, even while a handler delegate callback function is processing.

Figure 248: Listener Activation and Dispatch

When the callback method is I/O-bound, messages can arrive faster than the callback delegate can process them, and the queue can grow unacceptably long. In programs where a delay in processing messages is unacceptable, consider dispatching from several threads to process messages concurrently.

## Descendants

VectorListener

CMListener

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