[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss ESB] - Providers vs. Listeners and Configuration

Can anyone summarize what is the difference between a provider and a listener? Am I right thinking that providers are global with the ESB, whereas listeners are "local" to a service, and tie the provider with the service? Why would a particular configuration exist in one, but not the other? For example, In SQL, the provider seems to define the sql-message-filter, and the listener defines the number of threads. Why not the other way around? Finally, why are some configuration properties defined using and others are attributes of the <xxx-listener> element? For example, I define my poll-frequency-seconds in <fs-listener>, but need to define my composer-class and composer-process in a . View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4069182#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...