Integrated MS CRM with AX

Microsoft Dynamics AX provides a framework called Application Integration Framework (AIF) to integrate with an external application. You can use AIF to send and receive XML documents that represent business objects, such as a customer or vendor. To process these documents, Microsoft Dynamics AX must be able to parse and generate XML. AIF provides automatically generated classes referred to as data objects to implement XML serialization and de-serialization. Data objects can be defined from multiple artifacts       

Application Integration Framework (AIF) is the infrastructure within Microsoft Dynamics AX with which you can expose business logic or exchange data with other systems. AIF is comprised of three primary components:

·         Services - Enable you to expose business logic written in X++ as a service to be consumed by other applications. Within Microsoft Dynamics AX, you can create, customize, and publish services.

·         Document services - A specific implementation of services in which the Microsoft Dynamics AX business logic is exposed through document services.

·         Consume Web services - In Microsoft Dynamics AX, you can consume external Web services from your X++ code.

 

There are two methods for exchanging data in AIF:

·         Web services - A data exchange in which a Microsoft Dynamics AX service is consumed an external system.

·         Adapters - A data exchange in which Microsoft Dynamics AX adapters are used to communicate with the external system. Microsoft Dynamics AX adapters support the following transport mechanisms:

·         File system

·         Message Queuing (MSMQ)

·         BizTalk Server