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Overview
Many large enterprises have disparate systems including legacy mainframe, databases, packaged and homegrown applications that need to be integrated with each other to provide end user solutions. The technology integration becomes more complex after companies go through Mergers and Acquisitions, which are more prevalent in case of Financial and Telecom Industry verticals. Back-end systems such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle, IBM CICS, IMS, VSAM and Relational Databases are collectively known as Line-of-Business (LOB) applications. The line-of-business adapters provide legacy modernization by bridging existing back-end applications with the modern interfaces. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a unified framework for building distributed applications, including creating adapters to existing applications.
The WCF LOB Adapter SDK provides for a simplified programming model on top of WCF Channel Model to enable adapter developers in creating service-oriented interfaces to existing systems and applications. The Adapter SDK surfaces a target system adapter as a WCF Binding. The goal of the WCF LOB Adapter SDK is to facilitate uniform development of reusable metadata-oriented WCF-based adapters that enable enterprise applications, databases and messaging platforms to integrate with each other. The same adapter binding developed using Adapter SDK can be reused in multiple .NET applications including Custom .NET Applications, BizTalk Server 2006 R2/2009 , Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services. In addition, Adapter SDK provides a common metadata object model to expose target system metadata, for adapter consumers to browse, search and retrieve WCF contracts from the adapter.
The Adapter Consumer can use the adapter in an integration application similar to a typical WCF Service without having to learn a new programming model.
Some of the high-level features provided by this SDK are as follows:
Connection pooling for connections to the target system
Operation/Type metadata API and WCF contract generator
In-memory metadata cache
Adapter Code Generation Wizard
Tools for adapter consumers to browse/search available operations and generate WCF contract(s) with selected operations
Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86); Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2008
Supported Platforms: x86 and x64
Prerequisite Software Requirement
You must install this software prior to installing the WCF LOB Adapter SDK.
a. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
b. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 or Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Note: You require this only if you want to either build custom adapters or develop solutions that use the adapters built using the WCF LOB Adapter SDK.
c. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 or Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Note: You require this only if you want to use the adapters with BizTalk.
IMPORTANT: Make sure you have the latest service pack and critical updates for the version of Windows that you are running. To find recent security updates, visit Windows Update.
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IMPORTANT: If you have installed previous pre-release versions of the WCF LOB Adapter SDK, such as Community Technical Preview (CTP) or Beta builds, then you must uninstall these versions using Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel before installing this version.
If you are installing under Vista, depending on your setup, you might be required to "run as administrator" when starting the installation.
