Improvements in services and in the AIF that result in performance improvements

Improvements in services and in the AIF that result in performance
improvements include the following:

• To achieve scale and redundancy, configure AOS servers with the
Network Load Balancing (NLB) for Microsoft Dynamics AX
services. The AOS clustering solution affects only the Remote
Procedure Call (RPC) based connections and does not load balance
Microsoft Dynamics AX services.

• X++ services are complied into Common Intermediate Language
(CIL).

• Client applications can access services using the WCF runtime
without using the .NET Business Connector previously required for
services and the AIF in earlier versions of Microsoft Dynamics AX.

• Intranet deployment does not require IIS since services are now
hosted on the AOS by default.

• Services can be hosted on IIS for requests originating from the
Internet. However, the routing service on IIS dispatches these
requests to the AOS host. All service requests, regardless of the
origin, are processed on the AOS. 

• The services framework uses connection pooling to reduce the
overhead of creating and destroying a session on service calls.

• All the services references are placed in a single WSDL file.
Developers can use the single WSDL to reuse types when they
consume Microsoft Dynamics AX services. 

Regards,
Hossein Karimi