What are the overlaps and main differences between the transformation technologies in WMB and WTX?
There are some overlaps between transformation capabilities, but at their core, the two products have complementary strengths — WMB’s being routing, WTX’s being complex transformation Message Broker is a platform for “enterprise-class data movement and message processing” building off the well proven capabilities of WebSphere MQ. WebSphere MQ is the industry-leading platform for assured transactional message delivery. On its own, it provides no capability to “manipulate” the content of messages, but in combination with WebSphere Message Broker, it offers very powerful capabilities. WMB is rich in detecting and distributing information based on message content, switching between protocols, refacing applications to perform and appear as Web services, providing high volume, high availability processing and more. It also has many different options for data transformation catering to different skill sets. While these data transformation capabilities are typically a class above those offered
