Local Host port bi-directional capabilities?

[Michael Lacriola]

If I have a port defined to be a local host the allows messages to be routed from engine process “A” to engine process “B”, can I use that same port so that message can also go from engine process “B” to “A”??

If so, is there anything I need to watch out for when it comes to routing?

Right now, the local host in engine process “A” is setup for outbound only, this would obviously need to be changed to handle inbound messages as well. The localhost on engine process “B” has no restrictions on it at this time. It just basically reads from the port.

I do not want to create two additional threads to accomplish routing from engine process “B” back to “A” if it is not needed.  ❓

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[Jim Kosloskey]

Michael,

I don’t see why you could not use it that way.

You would need to specify routes for the inbound messages of course.

I am not sure what you have for acknowledgment handling (you do have acknowledgment handling on those thread pairs – don’t you), but I don’t think that should be an issue – unless you are arbitrarily killing every message that comes in on the outbound thread.

Jim Kosloskey

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 30+ years Cloverleaf, 60 years IT – old fart.

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