The second type of client connection represents actual application Broker client connections. It is based on the application client group and connection parameters as specified at the creation time. For a territory with one or more Brokers, a BrokerClusterPublisher would create a Broker client connection to each of the Brokers on the territory. These are the clients that actually execute publish or deliver operations invoked on the BrokerClusterPublisher object. These Broker client connections are maintained in a cluster connection pool from which the will choose a client to execute an operation. These clients are referred to as Broker cluster publishers.