Tables represent the interface of your application to the message. When your application receives a message, it will be parsed and translated to a structure that your application knows how to process; in other words, the set of tables. When your application needs to send a message, it will create a set of tables, fill them, and Chameleon will create a message flat wire (text) from the set and send it to the receiving application.

This way, tables are not part of the message structure, protocol syntax or encoding rules. Essentially, they are part of the business logic. Even though Chameleon allows you to import pre-defined tables from the library, it is still up to you to plan and create a set of tables in the easiest way for your application to process the data.