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Introduction to Message
In an enterprise which that uses Message Channels to connect between two different applications, you need to must package information as a data set. Data sets facilitate information transmission from one application to another. The Message EIP is used as the transfer medium in this case. A Message comprises of message has two parts as : a header and a body. A header holds information about the data being transmitted, its origin, and its destination. A body holds the actual data.
For more information on the Message EIP, refer to http://www.eaipatterns.com/Message.html.
Figure 1: Message EIP
How WSO2 ESB Supports the Message EIP
As described in Messaging Bridge EIP, irrespective of the format of a request you send from the client application, WSO2 ESB transforms the message into a SOAP envelopenvelope, which adheres to the Message EIP. The following code segment illustrates the transformed message of a typical request. Notice that it has a header and a body.
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