We configure a port to send messages to a web service. I dont see how a web
service would be listening to a port. Why not use a windows service instead
of a web service?


Thanks

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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 05:20:43 -0700, john wrote:

> We configure a port to send messages to a web service. I dont see how a we
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> service would be listening to a port. Why not use a windows service instea
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> of a web service?
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> Thanks

Hi John,

A port is just a name for a part of the pub/subscribe mechanism of BizTalk
Server 2004 (see http://blogs.msdn.com/Biztalk_Core_Engine for more
information). It could just as easily have been named something else. A web
service is ofcourse not listening on a specific port (well, the parent
process is ofcourse...), so the "port" doesn't signify a TCP or UDP port
number, but rather is a name for outgoing or incoming messaging elements.

HTH,

Martijn Hoogendoorn

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