Understanding Message Segments

When you create message segments, you can divide rowset-based and nonrowset-based messages into multiple data containers, or segments, for sending. Depending on the order in which you send a message that contains message segments, the receiving system can process the message as a whole, or process one segment at a time while the others are compressed in memory or held in the application database.

As a result creating message segments can enhance system performance and message exchange, especially when you are working with large messages that exceed one gigabyte (1 GB).

To create and manage message segments, you use several methods and properties of the PeopleCode Message class.