This topic describes additional mediation concepts that you will
need for the mediation programming task.
Why and when to perform this task
Using the capabilities of the mediation infrastructure, you can
program your own mediations to customize the way the service integration bus handles
messages. (For further information about mediations, see Mediations and Mediation handlers.
For
example, your mediations can
- reformat messages from the format produced by one application to the format
required by another
- route messages based on message content
- distribute messages to more than one destination
- augment messages by adding information to a message from another data
source
- transcode messages from one concrete representation to another
There are some topics that you should understand before you start
to program your own mediations.
Steps for this task
- Read Overview of programming process for
an overview of how you can program mediations.
- Read SI programming resources for
an overview of the programming resources available to you.
- Read SDO data graphs for
information about SDO data graphs, the abstract representation of data that
gives you a consistent interface to different message formats.
- Read Coding considerations for mediations for
things to consider when writing mediation code. These are hints for successful
mediation programming, rather than instructions on the task of programming
a mediation, which you can read about in Programming mediations