You use adapters to connect Microsoft® BizTalk® Server with applications, as well as send and receive messages using a variety of adapters.
Using native adapters provided with BizTalk Server 2004, you can send and receive messages using FILE, HTTP, SMTP, SOAP, BizTalk Message Queuing, FTP, SQL, and EDI protocols.
BizTalk Server 2004 provides improved Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) message support. The BizTalk Server Base EDI Adapter supports the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) X-12 and Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Trade (EDIFACT) standards.
In addition, BizTalk Server 2004 provides an extensible Adapter Framework that enables you to build a BizTalk adapter for your own custom application. You add an adapter to a BizTalk Server project with the help of the Adapter Wizard. If you want to create an adapter programmatically, the BizTalk Server 2004 Software Development Kit (SDK) includes a sample file-copy static adapter that you can use as a template to create and customize your own adapters.
You can also acquire adapters that connect BizTalk Server 2004 to more than 200 applications and technologies, including Great Plains, J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, and SAP. For a comprehensive list of BizTalk Server application adapters available from Microsoft and its partners, go to the BizTalk Adapters page on the Microsoft Windows Server System™ Web site at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=16821.
See Also
Connecting Applications Using Native Adapters
What's New in BizTalk Server 2004
To download updated BizTalk Server 2004 Help from www.microsoft.com, go to
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=20616.
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