Updated: August 4, 2020 (March 24, 2008)

Application Integration and E-Commerce Overview

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The next major BizTalk Server release will deliver new messaging and workflow engines based on the .NET Framework. Labeled BizTalk Server V6 here, but not yet named, the next release will use the Windows Workflow Foundation for orchestration and the Windows Communication Foundation for messaging. These changes could simplify development of BizTalk Server solutions, but solutions built for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and earlier will probably require changes to run on the new V6 engine.

The BizTalk Adapter Pack, released Mar. 2008, delivers new adapters for mySAP ERP, Siebel CRM, and Oracle databases. The adapter pack is bundled with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 as of Mar. 2008, but BizTalk Server is not required to use the Adapter Pack.

Neither BizTalk Server 2006 R2 nor the Adapter Pack is supported on Windows Server 2008, and they are not compatible with Visual Studio 2008. V6 will probably be the first version of BizTalk Server to run on Windows Server 2008 and employ the Visual Studio 2008 tools.

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