Constructing message models
You can model a wide variety of message formats by using XML Schema files, DFDL schema files, message sets, and WebSphere® Adapters.
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Tip: In WebSphere Message
Broker Version 8.0 and
later, message model schema files contained in applications,
integration services, and libraries are the preferred way to
model messages for most data formats. Message sets are required if
you use the MRM or IDOC domains. For more information about message
modeling, see Message modeling concepts.
This topic area describes the concepts behind message modeling and the tasks that are involved in working with message models. If you are unfamiliar with message models, read the topics that describe the concepts, starting with Message modeling overview. These topics explain when you might want to model messages, and describe the message modeling objects that you can use, such as message model schema files, message sets, and message definition files.
The
following tasks are provided for developing message models: