Taming the BizTalk AIF Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 is a new version of one of Microsoft ERP systems tailored for a specific market. The advantages of the new Dynamics AX 2009 version is that the technical integration of trading partner integration is much more robust and interfacing with other applications using BizTalk has now become even easier because the accompanied BizTalk AIF Adapter. Dynamics AX 2009 exposes documents using an application platform called AIF. AIF enables the integration of Microsoft Dynamics AX through Web services, Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), the file system (using a directory), or BizTalk Server. The AIF framework uses documents wrapped in envelopes for processing. A downside to not using the BizTalk adapter is that the envelope processing has to be performed additionally while the BizTalk adapter will solve this for you. A colleague of mine has an article on how to do AIF processing without the AIF adapter (see: http://www.microtalk.net/2009/04/23/AssignAHeaderValueInAnAIFDyna...