Message Designer Project Overview

You can create message definitions to model custom wire formats. Generating a message definition results in a set of objects that includes an XSD, parser, and serializer. The objects allow other components such as a Transformation service to parse and serialize messages of that custom wire format as part of a business process. When you create a message definition, you can store it in a Message Designer Project folder or in a regular Sybase Project folder that has been updated with Message Designer resources (automatic upon creation).

The following workflow guides you through the process of creating and testing a message definition in a Message Designer project. You can also view these steps in a cheat sheet.

Set up Message Defaults preferences to select default settings for all future message definitions and any containers and fields that you add to it (optional).
Create a new Message Designer project.
In the Message Designer project, create a new message definition using the New Message Definition wizard.
Edit the message definition by modeling the custom wire format as a tree of containers and fields representing a sequence of data elements.
- Add one or more containers to the message definition or to other containers.
- Add one or more fields to the message or to a container.
Generate the message definition objects, which are required to test or deploy the message definition:
- Parser
- Serializer
- XSD
Test the message definition.
- Enter test data directly or load a text file containing test data.
- Test the parser.
- Test the serializer.