Progress Sonic ESB Configuration and Management Guide

Chapter 3: ESB Endpoints and Connections
Overview
ESB endpoints and connections enable communication among services. Endpoints are
destinations where ESB services send and receive messages. The definition of an endpoint
includes its connection, the URL address where the destination resides. An application
accesses a service by sending a request to the service’s entry endpoint.
Progress Sonic ESB endpoints include Java Messaging Service (JMS) destinations—
queues and topics—that are accessed through connections to SonicMQ messaging
brokers. Endpoints provide queuing and persistence between services. This persistence
allows an ESB process to be fault-tolerant and provides an overall Quality of Service
(QoS) that can guarantee processing in case of provider failure.
Endpoints are defined by three sets of properties:
● Name — A globally unique name for accessing the endpoint
● Connection — The logical connection that instantiates the endpoint
● Parameters — The specific parameters within the logical connection that distinguish
the endpoint (for example, the name of a Progress SonicMQ queue or topic)
The following view of an endpoint in the ESB Configured Objects section of the Sonic
Management Console shows some of the properties:
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