Overview

An adapter is a software component that enables you to send and receive messages to and from a line-of-business (LOB) system. The
primary design goal of adapters is to facilitate the exchange of business documents between trading partners. The adapters provide the
following advantages to clients:
• Consistent design-time experience. The adapters provide a common and user-friendly design time experience for
browsing, searching, and retrieving metadata of LOB artifacts.
• Varied programming options. The adapters provide a choice of programming model including Windows
Communication Foundation (WCF) Channel Model, WCF Service Model, ADO.NET or through BizTalk
orchestrations.
• Uniform experience across LOBs. The adapters standardize on using the WCF and Microsoft Windows
Communication Foundation (WCF) Line of Business (LOB) Adapter SDK and hence provide a uniform experience
of gaining access to any LOB system.

As mentioned, the adapters are built on top of the Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Line of Business (LOB)
Adapter SDK. The WCF LOB Adapter SDK provides a common basis for building integration adapters that a variety of client
applications such as BizTalk Server and Microsoft Office can consume.
The BizTalk Adapter Pack includes the following adapters:
• Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for SQL Server The Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for SQL Server exposes the SQL
Server database as a WCF service. Adapter clients can perform operations on the SQL Server database artifacts such
as tables, views, and procedures by exchanging SOAP messages with the adapter Supported SQL Server versions are
SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 The SQL adapter uses ADO.NET to communicate with
the SQL Server database . The minimum requirement is .NET 3.5 SP1
• Microsoft BizTalk Adapter 3.0 for Oracle Database . This Oracle database adapter enables adapter clients to read
and write to and Oracle database
Supported Oracle Database Server versions
○ Oracle 9.2
○ Oracle 10.1
○ Oracle 10.2
○ Oracle 11.1
The Oracle Database adapter supports Oracle Data Access Components for Oracle Client 11.1.0.6 with Patch Set
11.1.0.7.
• Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for Oracle E-Business Suite . Using this adapter clients can perform operations on the
the Oracle E-Business Suite artifacts (PL/SQL APIs, interface tables/views, concurrent programs, and request sets)
and the underlying Oracle database artifacts (such as tables, functions, and procedures) by exchanging SOAP
messages with the adapter.
The Oracle E-Business adapter uses the Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) 11.1.0.7 to communicate with
Oracle E-Business Suite. ODP.NET 11.1.0.7 is one of the components of Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC).
• Microsoft BizTalk Adapter 3.0 for mySAP Business Suite . This adapter enables clients to exchange Intermediate
Document (IDOC), BAPI, and Remote Function Call (RFC) messages with the SAP system.
Supported versions
○ SAP R/3 4.6c Non-Unicode
○ SAP R/3 4.7 Non-Unicode
○ SAP R/3 4.7 Unicode
○ SAP R/3 5.0 Non-Unicode
○ SAP R/3 5.0 Unicode
○ SAP R/3 6.0 Unicode
• Microsoft BizTalk Adapter 3.0 for Siebel eBusiness Applications - This adapter enables clients to invoke Business
Services and operations on Business Components in a Siebel eBusiness Application.
Supported Versions
○ Siebel 7.5 (7.5.3.15)
○ Siebel 7.7 (7.7.2.8)
○ Siebel 7.8 (7.8.2.6)
○ Siebel 8.0 (8.0.0.1)