Much of the business world relies on the exchange of information between applications. The information is contained in messages that have a defined structure that is known and agreed by the sender and the receiver.
You can model a wide variety of the message formats that can be understood by WebSphere Message Broker message flows.
When the message format is known, the broker can parse an incoming message bit stream and convert it into a logical message tree for manipulation by a message flow. After the message has been processed by the message flow, the broker converts the message tree back into a message bit stream.
The following topics together give an overview of Message modeling: