IBM WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit, Version 7.1

Formatters

Formatters are what the toolkit uses to exchange data between toolkit entities such as operations, contexts, and services. Each formatter converts a specific data item into a string representation of the data item and parses a string into a specific data item. In this way, the toolkit uses formatters to build messages to do things such as sending a transaction to the host, writing a journal record, printing a form. Formatters enable applications to interact with many various entities without requiring changes to the application. For example, an application may use different formatters to send the same data to the electronic journal or to a financial printer.

To help the formatting process, the toolkit includes a set of formatters and a set of decorators.



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