Message flow projects

A message flow project is a specialized container in which you create and maintain all the resources associated with one or more message flows.

You can create a message flow project to contain a single message flow and its resources, or you can group together related message flows and resources in a single message flow project to provide an organizational structure to your message flow resources.

Message flow project resources are created as files, and are displayed within the project in the Navigator view. These resources define the content of the message flow, and additional objects that contain detailed configuration information, in the form of ESQL modules and mappings, for one or more nodes within the message flow.

Import one of the samples from the Samples Gallery to see how the sample's message flow resources are stored in a Message Flow project. If the sample has a message set, its message set resources are stored in a Message Set project. For example, import the Video Rental sample or the Comma Separated Value (CSV) sample; both of these samples have a Message Flow project and a Message Set project.

Related concepts
Project references
Message flow nodes
Message flow connections
Message modeling
Related tasks
Developing message flows
Related reference
Message flow projects and files
Built-in nodes