Microsoft have just released the BizTalk
Server Adapter Migration Toolkit which allows the reuse of BizTalk 2002 custom
computers (AICs preprocessors) in BizTalk 2004. Here’s an overview:
AMT is designed to simplify migration of BizTalk 2002 solutions to BizTalk 2004 by
providing three key pieces:
— The generation of wrappers for BizTalk 2002 Application Integration Components
(AICs) so that they can be used as BizTalk 2004 adapters and pipeline components;
— The wrapper for BizTalk 2002 custom preprocessors so that they can be used as BizTalk
2004 pipeline components; and
— Implementation of BizTalk 2002 IInterchange to facilitate migration of BizTalk
2002 applications that submitted messages bypassing specific transports directly into
BizTalk.
My advice .. use with care. BizTalk 2004 is
a totally different kettle of fish to BizTalk 2002, and migration to BizTalk 2004
deserves a rethink of how the integration piece was originally implemented. Don’t
be fooled into thinking you can just use the Toolkit and migrate to BizTalk 2004 in
2 man days. It won’t happen.