WCF LOB Adapter SDK and BizTalk Adapter Pack

Things to consider when writing WCF LOB Adapters for consumption through BizTalk

If you are writing a WCF LOB adapter that can be consumed through BizTalk, you need to be aware of certain issues that can manifest because of the way BizTalk interacts with WCF adapters. Some of these can have performance and scalability impact and hence Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:22 AM by SandeepP | 0 Comments

Throughput stalls when using adapters, developed against the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, in BizTalk

We’ve had a few users complaining about the throughput of the adapters (the Adapter Pack ones, and/or custom ones) coming to a standstill during normal operation within BizTalk. In this post, I’ll explain why that happens, and some workarounds. Let’s Read More...

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 4:21 PM by mdoctor | 0 Comments

Surfacing BizTalk Adapter Pack Adapters (WCF Bindings) as native BizTalk Adapters

One of the features we’ve enabled in the CTP3 of the BizTalk Adapter Pack V2 (which requires CTP3 of the WCF LOB Adapter SDK SP2), is the ability to expose the Adapters (which are in reality, WCF Bindings) as native BizTalk Adapters. Prior to this, if Read More...

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:32 PM by mdoctor | 0 Comments

Making Microsoft BizTalk Adapter v2.0 for mySAP Business Suite projects work with WCF SAP Adapter #2

This is in continuation to the previous post, where we discussed the differences in the XML structure used by the old SAP adapter and the new WCF SAP Adapter. In a transactional scenario, the old adapter uses the context property named 'ConnectionType'. Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:36 PM by manasg | 2 Comments

Making Microsoft BizTalk Adapter v2.0 for mySAP Business Suite projects work with WCF SAP Adapter

We have written a custom pipeline component (code and sample projects using this pipeline component are attached) that you can use to make your BizTalk orchestrations calling RFCs and BAPIs written with Microsoft BizTalk Adapter v2.0 for mySAP Business Read More...

Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 7:47 AM by manasg | 0 Comments

Attachment(s): AdapterPipelineComponent.zip

Why does the Adapter say ‘Action is not understood’ even though I am using the binding file generated by the ‘Consume Adapter Service’ wizard?

Believe me, the adapter is telling the truth! It really doesn’t understand the action it got! To understand what’s going on, read on… When you use the ‘Consume Adapter Service’ wizard to generate LOB schemas in a BizTalk project, you also get a binding Read More...

Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 6:03 AM by tusharma | 2 Comments