Adapters

Integration ports in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 services and AIF use adapters
so that Microsoft Dynamics AX can communicate by using a variety of transport
protocols. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 provides the following four adapters
that represent predefined bindings:

• HTTP adapter: Provides an HTTP or HTTPs transport.

• NetTCP adapter: Provides WS-* standards support over the
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) transport. This adapter
corresponds to the WCF-NetTcp adapter in WCF.

• MSMQ adapter: Provides support for queuing by leveraging
MSMQ as a transport. This adapter corresponds to the WCFNetMSMQ adapter in WCF.

• File system adapter: Provides support for exchanging documents
through file system paths. While not a WCF adapter itself, this
adapter uses WCF to allow communication.

You can choose the appropriate adapter for your connection when you configure
an enhanced integration port. For example, you can have a scenario where the
chart of accounts is sent from Microsoft Dynamics AX to two external systems.
One system could be configured to receive messages by checking a specific file
system directory for files, by using the file system adapter, while the second
system could be configured to use MSMQ to receive messages, by using the
MSMQ adapter. In this scenario, both messages are first placed in the queue in
Microsoft Dynamics AX. 

To start and stop processing in the queues, use the Microsoft Dynamics AX batch
processing features. When a batch job starts, it retrieves messages from the
queue. The batch job will send the first message to the first system by using the
appropriate directory and send the second message to the appropriate MSMQ
queue for the second system.

Regards,
Hossein Karimi