Network Deployment (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Applications > Web services > Bus-enabled web services
Outbound ports and port destinations
A set of outbound ports and associated port destinations provides the mechanism through which an outbound service communicates with the externally-hosted target web service.
The target service might be accessible by using one of several message and transport bindings. For example SOAP over HTTP, SOAP over JMS, or EJB binding. Each of these bindings is defined as a port in the target service WSDL. When you create an outbound service, you configure an outbound port for each port defined in the WSDL. Messages then pass between the outbound service and the target service through the most convenient available port. When you set Web Service Security, or use JAX-RPC handlers to filter messages, you set these features on the port.
A port destination is a specialization of a service integration bus destination.
Each port destination represents a particular message and transport binding.
When you configure an outbound port, the configuration is applied to a port destination of the appropriate binding type.
Concept topic