CHAPTER 6

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Adapters

The BizTalk engine uses adapters to communicate with outside systems, and adapters start and end any process within BizTalk. Adapters come in three basic flavors: protocol adapters, database adapters, cloud adapters and ERP adapters. In addition to these, BizTalk 2013 comes with several more protocol adapters and a new tier of adapters used to facilitate communication with the Microsoft Azure Service Bus (cloud adapters).

Hundreds of adapters are available from third-party vendors that enable the BizTalk engine to communicate with just about any system. In addition, if an adapter is not available, the BizTalk adapter framework ...

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