Administering listener ports

You can use the WebSphere® Application Server administrative console to administer listener ports, which each define the association between a connection factory, a destination, and a message-driven bean.

Before you begin

If you want to use message-driven beans with a messaging provider that does not have a JCA 1.5 resource adapter (for example the WebSphere MQ messaging provider or the default messaging provider), you cannot use activation specifications and therefore you must configure your beans against a listener port. There are also a few scenarios in which, although you could use activation specifications, you might still choose to use listener ports. For example, for compatability with existing message-driven bean applications.

For more information about when to use listener ports rather than activation specifications, see Message-driven beans, activation specifications, and listener ports.

[z/OS] Before configuring message listener resources, consider the message listener service implementation on the z/OS® platform, which affects how you should configure your listener port. For more information, see [z/OS] Message Listener Service on z/OS.

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A listener port defines the association between a connection factory, a destination, and a deployed message-driven bean. If you set the initial state of a listener port to Started, the listener port is started automatically when a message-driven bean associated with that port is installed.

Note: You do not usually need to start or stop a listener port manually.

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