Microsoft WCF Line of Business Adapter SDK
Summary
Developers face the challenge of building services that interoperate across organizational and platform boundaries, and connect to existing line-of- business (LOB) systems. At the same time, these services and LOB systems evolve independently of each other, making connecting applications and services a constant challenge.
To simplify this problem for partners and customers, Microsoft has created a common framework based on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) – the WCF Line-of-Business Adapter Software Development Kit ( WCF LOB Adapter SDK). With the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, developers now have a consistent and repeatable way to build LOB Adapters for the .NET platform.
For developers and partners, this means a common adapter that can be used across the entire .NET platform, not just a single endpoint like SharePoint or BizTalk Server.
The WCF LOB Adapter SDK ships with a rich set of development tools to automate and simplify adapter development in a consistent and repeatable manner:
For Adapter Developers
| • | Adapter Development Code Generation Wizard |
| • | Visual Studio 2005 Integration (IntelliSense, context-sensitive help) |
| • | Runtime Components (LOB System Connection Pooling, Metadata Cache Lookup) |
For Adapter Consumers
| • | Add Adapter Service Reference Visual Studio Plug-In |
| • | Consumer Adapter Service BizTalk Project Add-In |
Download the WCF LOB Adapter SDK here.
