Message formats The JMS connectors support the following message formats: • Binary messages. The content is not altered by transmission. The sequence of bytes that are sent are received in the same way at the other end. There is no encoding connected to the message. • Text messages. The content is treated as text and is automatically converted by JMS if the message passes between two environments where the text encoding is not the same. For example, a message sent from Windows can be read on a Main Frame computer with native methods. Binary messages are slightly more efficient since no transformation is involved. Input connectors automatically read both binary and text messages and writes the data to the input queue. Output connectors must to be configured to either send data as text or as binary data. It is possible to send text data in a binary message, but in that case the JMS provider will not transform the data. It is however not possible to send binary data in a text message without corrupting the information.