Hi everyone. I received some emails and some colleagues asked me about AIF on AX7, if is deprecated and what should be used instead.
Using this link you can see that AIF is deprecated on AX7 and now you should use the business process thru services or Data Entities.
AIF, AxD, and AxBC integrations
In Application Integration Framework (AIF), data can be exchanged with external systems through business logic that is exposed as services. Microsoft Dynamics AX includes services that are based on documents and .NET Business Connector (AxBC). A document is created by using XML. The XML includes header information that is added to create a message that can be transferred into or out of Microsoft Dynamics AX. Examples of documents include sales orders and purchase orders. However, almost any entity, such as a customer, can be represented by a document. Services that are based on documents use the Axd <Document> classes.
| Reason for deprecation | The architecture of AIF and AxDs could not be scaled to a cloud service. There were performance issues around bulk import. |
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| Replaced by another feature? | In the current version of Dynamics AX, this feature is replaced by Data Import/Export framework, which supports recurring bulk import/export. For AxBC, we recommend that you use the actual tables. |
| Modules affected | AxDs, AxBCs, and AIF |
To understand the services feature and see how use it, see this link and to learn more about Data Entities click here.
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