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Purpose of the Procedures
The built-in procedures let users with appropriate privileges perform basic server activities, including:
Set up log messages for debugging
Create, update, introspect, maintain, and destroy resources
Execute SQL, scripts and procedures
Set and clear JMS message properties
Send JMS map and text messages
Create and delete elements, write messages to files
Test connections and server performance
Execute a basic transformation on XML input