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To fully participate in a service application that is enabled by Connected Services Framework (CSF), a Web service should be a Well-enabled Service (WES). Microsoft recommends that all services in a CSF environment expose the WES interfaces and provides the WES Toolkit to help you implement your services as a WES. For more information about the WES Toolkit, see Building Well-enabled Services. In a distributed service application, however, you may use services that are provided by many vendors, and you may not be able to control the implementation of services outside of your enterprise. Additionally, many of your enterprise-wide systems may not implemented as Web services. In cases like these, Microsoft recommends that you create an adapter Web service, which is based on WES principles, to serve as an interface between the service or system and the Service Network enabled by CSF. Such an adapter is called a WES Adapter.
In the figure, several systems collaborate in a service application that is enabled by CSF. Each of the systems uses a WES adapter to send provisioning, health, and usage messages through a CSF session.
Adapters are provided with CSF for the following products:
- Microsoft TV IPTV Edition (IPTV): For more information, see the Microsoft Connected Services Framework 3.0 IPTV WES Technical Overview.
- Microsoft Office Live Meeting (OLM): For more information, Microsoft Connected Services Framework 3.0 OLM WES Technical Overview.
- Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 (BTS): for more information, Microsoft Connected Services Framework 3.0 BTS WSE Adapter User Guide.
Both the OLM and IPTV adapters are implemented as WES adapters. The BTS adapter is built on top of WSE 3.0, but it is not a WES adapter. You can also purchase a WES adapter for Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) version 3.5.
You can use the IPTV and OLM adapters to host these products in your enterprise where they can be provisioned and monitored by entities within your enterprise or partner organizations (or, in some cases, by customers themselves) by using a service application running on the CSF platform. Usage data can also be collected through these adapters. Alternatively, you can also deploy these adapters within your enterprise to enable your services to provision, monitor and collect usage data from IPTV or OLM systems that are hosted by partner organizations, for example by Value Added Service (VAS) providers. You can use the BTS adapter to integrate service logic components built using BizTalk server into your CSF environment.