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What is the difference between business connector and AIF?

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Posted on by Hariharans87 36

Hi All,

I am new to business connector and AIF. I want to create inventory transfer order from other system (.net class). So, which technology (AIF or business connector) is suitable for this?

I am interested to learn the main difference between AIF and business connector.

Is Business connector deprecated or available in AX7?

Thanks,
Hari

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    André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture
    André Arnaud de Cal... 305,150 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi Hari,

    The business connector is depreciated in AX7. Your question is about AX2009 (according to the tag). In this version you can use both options. To be more future compliant, you can avoid using the business connector and start using services.

    The .Net connector can be used to talk to AX on table and/or class level. AIF is based on XML files.

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    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 239,634 Most Valuable Professional on at

    The application integration framework (AIF) can do many different things, such as import files from a folder and create AX records based on such messages. If you compare it with Business Connector, you probably mean synchronous communication via web services and not other AIF features, correct? If not, this is already a partial answer about differences...

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