36 DataPower SOA Appliance Service Planning, Implementation, and Best Practices
The Front-Side Handler can employ any transport protocol, allowing enterprises
to expose WSDL-described HTTP-based back end services to clients employing
other transport protocols. This can be done using a Multi-Protocol Gateway as
well but only a Web Service Proxy offers configuration by WSDL.
More than one Web Service Proxy can use the same Front-Side Handler. This
configuration makes it possible to publish a single Internet Address and port
number to support a larger range of services split across more than one Web
Service Proxy. Using a unique URI for each service provides separation of
services for tracking and debugging purposes.
2.3.6 SLM interval length agreement ...