SALT defines a complete set of default data type conversion rules to convert between Oracle Tuxedo buffers and SOAP message payloads. However, the default data type conversion rules may not meet all your needs in transforming SOAP messages into Oracle Tuxedo typed buffers or vice versa. To accommodate special application requirements, SALT supports customized message-level conversion plug-in development to extend the default message conversion.

The following topics are included in this section:

• How Message Conversion Plug-ins Work
  
• When Do We Need Message Conversion Plug-in
  
• Developing a Message Conversion Plug-in Instance
  
• SALT 1.1 Custom Buffer Type Conversion Plug-in Compatibility