Connection Factories

The Conductor keeps track of any number of connection factories. A connection factory is responsible for making outgoing connections for a specific protocol. The main factories are for Perspective Broker and HTTP(s). When a service is requested through the conductor, it searches for the first available connection factory that services the protocol for that service. The connection factory must then make the connection and return the appropriate ServiceCon? subclass.

Connection factories are configured in the main section of the configuration file where the rest of the Conductor level options are specified. They are named and then further defined in config sections with the same name.