uCosminexus Service Platform, Basic Development Guide

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4.2 Message Format Types

The message format to be created differs depending on whether the message used for executing a service component handles XML data or binary (non-XML) data.

Organization of this section
(1) For handling XML data
(2) For handling binary data

(1) For handling XML data

To handle XML data, create an XML format definition file.

An XML format definition file is created as an XML schema file (extension: .xsd). The contents of the XML format definition file to be created and how to create it differ depending on the type of service component to be executed. For details about how to create an XML format definition file for each service component, see 4.3 Creating Message Formats (XML Format Definition File).

(2) For handling binary data

To handle binary (non-XML) data, create a binary format definition file.

In a binary format definition file, you can define the text, binary, and CSV format data structures (such as fixed length and separators) and data character codes (such as shift JIS, JIS Kanji, Unicode, KEIS, IBM Kanji and JEF).

For details about how to create a binary format definition file, see 4.4 Creating Message Formats (Binary Format Definition File).