Listener threads

Listener threads handle all of the ALE-specific RFC calls between the ALE Module and the SAP application. When the connector starts up, the init() method of the RFC Server Module creates a main thread that spawns a configurable number of listener threads. Each listener thread opens a handle to the SAP Gateway.

The listener threads do the following:

A thread listens continuously in a synchronous manner for events from the ALE-specific functions that it supports.

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