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 message formats so that they 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: