Migrating BizTalk Projects Created Using the Previous Version of the Oracle Adapter

The previous version of the Oracle Database adapter that shipped with Microsoft BizTalk Server differs from Microsoft BizTalk Adapter 3.0 for Oracle Database in many aspects, including:

• The design-time experience of creating a BizTalk project.
  
  
• The metadata retrieval experience.
  
  
• Schemas.
  
  
• Data type mappings.
  
  
• The operations that can be performed using the adapter.
  
  
• Physical port configuration in the BizTalk Server Administration console.
  
  

This section discusses the differences between the versions.

Note

The Oracle Database adapter is a WCF-based adapter and can be used with BizTalk Server, the WCF service model, or the WCF channel model. The earlier version of the adapter, however, can be used only with BizTalk Server. Therefore, this section talks about version differences in terms of using the adapter with BizTalk Server. For information about how to use the adapter with the WCF service model or WCF channel model, see Overview of BizTalk Adapter 3.0 for Oracle Database.