Developing with the BizTalk Adapters
For the latest version of Commerce Server 2007 Help, see the Microsoft Web site.
Commerce Server includes the following four BizTalk adapters, also known informally as the Commerce Server adapters, to provide easier integration between the Commerce Server, BizTalk Server, and other arbitrary applications beyond BizTalk Server:
Orders adapter
Catalog adapter
Inventory adapter
Profiles adapter
These adapters each define a specific set of XML messages that can be exchanged between Commerce Server and BizTalk Server. The expectation is that BizTalk Server will be used to exchange, and potentially process, these messages with another application that is the ultimate producer and/or consumer of the messages. This other application could be, for example, a line-of-business (LOB) application that interacts with one of the Commerce Server systems, or it could even be another instance of Commerce Server itself.
This section provides further information about the scenarios in which you may want to use the Commerce Server adapters, conceptual information about the Commerce Server adapters, detailed information about configuring the Commerce Server adapters within BizTalk Server, as well as several miscellaneous topics that discuss security, performance, concurrency, and troubleshooting.
Note
Working with the Commerce Server adapters is more of a BizTalk Server development task than a Commerce Server development task. You should refer to the BizTalk Server documentation to gain an understanding of the BizTalk Server adapter framework and general BizTalk Server administration concepts.