WebSphere Transformation Extender for Message Broker (WTXMB) is new extension to WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) provides additional complex data transformation capabilities and support for industry formats leveraging the WTX mapping sets. It can process custom data and system types such as binary, hierarchical, semi-structured, and mixed-format data sets, as well as FTP and SMTP protocols. It has proven success across a wide range of industries from finance and global commerce to pharmaceuticals. Parsing support and a WTX mapping node are added in this extension.

Current WebSphere Message Broker customers can be benefited to handle the hardest, ugliest transformation challenges complex, semi-structured, interdependent and disparate data types. While some users will find the Map node built into WebSphere Message Broker v6 — or any of the Broker's other transformation options such as XSLT, ESQL Compute, or Java Compute to be suitable for their needs, others with more complex transformation requirements, will see significant additional value in WTX.

In particular, companies with complex requirements involving EDI and HIPAA or mixed data may find significant value. Companies with existing WTX skills may also see value in deploying WTX as their "standard" transformation option for all Broker transformation interactions. In addition, customers with existing WTX mapping assets can leverage those assets in the Message Broker environment, avoiding the cost associate with duplicating previous development efforts.

Existing WTX customers can leverage the WTXMB technology as part of integration using WMB and a powerful enterprise service bus (ESB) solution, which offers complex event processing, publish and subscribe services, scalability, extensible architecture, Web services support, native transformation capabilities, and native support for many industry standard formats.