User-defined message processing nodes

A user-defined message processing node is a node you can create to complement the primitive node types provided by WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker. You can use a user-defined message processing node to provide some specific processing on receipt of a message that is not provided for by the primitive node types provided by WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker.

You might want to use a user-defined message processing node in the following situations:

You can use your new node types with existing primitive node types to create message flows to achieve the processing your messages require.

Related concepts
Message flow nodes
User-defined message processing nodes lifecycle
Planning user-defined message processing nodes

Related tasks
Designing a message flow
Creating a message processing node in C
Creating a message processing or output node in Java

Related reference
C user-defined node API
Java user-defined node API