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Message processing overview

Process your business messages and data by interacting with a broker, which you can configure to provide services and to communicate with other applications and systems.

You can use WebSphere® Message Broker to integrate client applications that use different protocols and message formats. A broker provides a flexible environment that you can configure to route and transform messages in many ways from one application to all other applications. In many cases, you can reuse existing applications with little or no change, to use the services provided by a broker.

A broker manages three sets of resources to integrate your applications, messages, and data:
  • Message flows
  • Nodes
  • Message models

You can configure message flows to support your applications that use one or both of the supported communication models, point-to-point and publish/subscribe. You can connect your client applications to the message flows that are running in a broker by using one of several supported protocols.

This section introduces you to conceptual details of message flows, message models, their associated resources, and methods of organization. It also describes the default behavior taken by a broker when it runs message flows. Read this section to gain an overall understanding of applications, messages, and brokers, and understand the generic tasks that are independent of the protocol that your applications use.

Some of the examples used in these topics have characteristics that apply to specific environments; these characteristics are clearly stated where applicable. Exceptions to the default behavior of the broker for particular protocols, or message formats, are stated in the sections where they apply. Additional characteristics of specific protocols of messages are also described where they apply.

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