18 DataPower SOA Appliance Service Planning, Implementation, and Best Practices
2.1 Multi-Protocol Gateway
The Multi-Protocol Gateway is a powerful and versatile service. In additional to
threat protection and multistep processing capabilities, the Multi-Protocol
Gateway can process requests between various protocols. The supported
protocols are HTTP, HTTPS, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere JMS, IMS™, FTP,
NFS, SFTP, and TIBCO EMS.
The Multi-Protocol Gateway receives incoming requests, processes them with a
processing policy, and forwards the request to the remote server. The
Multi-Protocol Gateway processes the response similarly, applying the applicable
response rule, if configured.
The Multi-Protocol Gateway uses Front-Side Handlers to manage cl ...