Types of AICs

As stated earlier, AICs are simply COM components that must implement at least one of the two COM interfaces:

  • IBTSAppIntegration

  • IPipelineComponent

  • BizTalk Scriptor Component

IBTSAppIntegration components are compiled components designed for simplicity. You use this type of component when you do not need to configure the component at deployment or design-time to get different behaviors at runtime, depending on the configurations.

IPipelineComponent components are also compiled components; however, they allow the configuration of their behavior at design-time and then at the time of deployment. These components also have access to the BizTalk Messaging Interchange Metadata—for example, the organization name, application name, envelope ...

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