The Connector is essentially a container for the invoker. It's the invoker that listens to the port. anonymous wrote : | Can two connectors listen on the same port? | No, they would have to share a ServerSocket, which is not currently possible. However, a single server can service multiple applications: you can register multiple ServerInvocationHandlers, each associated with a distinct subsystem string, with the same connector. See Chapter 5 of the Remoting Guide (http://www.jboss.org/jbossremoting/docs/guide/index.html). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4150024#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...