When you add a new message definition, you are associating a root element with a schema you have imported into the Message Bridge GUI. The root element is defined in the imported schema. Sometimes a message definition incorporates all the root elements from an imported schema. Other times, your message definition may use only one of many root elements of the imported schema, making it in effect, a subset of the schema.
Your message definition determines the API of the code Message Bridge generates. The generated code binds the schema to a Java DataBean that you can use in an application. See Chapter 2, “Understanding the DataBean Framework”, for more information on DataBeans.
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