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Message modeling

Much of the business world relies on the exchange of information between applications. This 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 message formats, including those message formats that are defined by the following structures or standards:

Comma Separated Values (CSV)
COBOL, C, PL/I, and other language data structures
Industry standards such as SWIFT, X12 or HL7
XML including SOAP

You can model a wide variety of message formats so that they can be understood by IBM® Integration Bus 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. Conversion to and from a bit stream is performed by a parser. IBM Integration Bus supplies several parsers, each suited to a particular class of message formats called a domain.

The following topics together give an overview of Message modeling:

You can import samples to understand how messages are modeled in different formats. The following samples are useful:

You can view information about samples only when you use the product documentation that is integrated with the IBM Integration Toolkit or the online product documentation. You can run samples only when you use the product documentation that is integrated with the IBM Integration Toolkit.

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Last updated Friday, 21 July 2017