WebSphere Message Brokers
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Message modeling

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.

Applications typically use a combination of messages, including those that are defined by the following structures or standards:

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:

You can import either of the following samples to explore message set projects to understand how the sample's messages are modeled in different formats. The following samples from the Samples Gallery also have message sets supplied: You can view samples only when you use the information center that is integrated with the Message Brokers Toolkit.
Related concepts
Message modeling concepts
Message flows overview
Parsers
Related tasks
Developing message models
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