Transforming data

A message sender and receiver might have different message format specifications, requiring you to design your message flow to transform the data in the message before delivering it. You might need to design your message flow to reformat your message, enrich your message, or do numeric and string calculations based on the value of certain fields.

IBM® Integration Bus provides the following four built-in transformation nodes that are ready for you to use as is, in your message flows:
  • Compute
  • XSLTransform
  • Mapping
  • JavaCompute

IBM Transformation Extender for IBM Integration Bus extends these data transformation and validation capabilities by enabling you to use these IBM Transformation Extender maps and type trees within the broker environment. You can create IBM Transformation Extender type trees that model complex data, complete with component rules that do syntax and semantic validation of the data in your messages. These type trees can be used in maps, which might have multiple input and output cards, and reused in different message flows, as well as in other applications across your enterprise besides IBM Integration Bus.

For information about the IBM Integration Bus transformation nodes, see the related topics in the IBM Integration Bus product documentation.