Mule Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 ConnectorBY – ANKUSH SHARMA

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Connector

The Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Connector enables Mule applications to interact with the Microsoft Dynamics AX Query Service. Microsoft Dynamics AX is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) application.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites must be satisfied before running the Dynamics AX connector: Install the Windows Gateway Services. Just go through the wizard by clicking

the Install button if you plan to use this connector alone, otherwise take a look at its reference documentation for settings that apply to other connectors as well.

Windows Gateway Services for Anypoint Platform

The Windows Gateway Services perform protocol translation when calling the Dynamics AX System Services. The Dynamics AX System Services (Metadata Service, Query Service) use the net.tcp protocol which is not implemented in Java. To execute requests, the connector routes the requests through the Windows Gateway Services as follows: The connector sends an HTTP request to the Windows Gateway Services. The Windows Gateway Services receives the HTTP request. The Windows Gateway Services executes the request against the Dynamics AX

System Services using the net.tcp protocol. The Windows Gateway Services receives the response from the Dynamics AX

System Services. The Windows Gateway Services sends the response to the connector over HTTP. The connector receives the response.

Mule Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Connector – Configuration Wizard (General Tab) (Cont.)

Mule Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Connector – Configuration Wizard (General Tab) Following are the options on general tab –

Display Name – The name of the connector to be displayed in Mule flow. Connector Configuration – Reference to the global connector configuration. Operation – Determines what operation to perform on Marketo database.

Mule Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Connector – Connector Configuration Wizard (General Tab) (Cont.)

Mule Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Connector – Connector Configuration Wizard (General Tab) Following are the options on general tab –

Name – The name of the connector configuration. Username – The username required for authentication. Password – The password required for authentication. AOS server name – The name of the AOS server. AOS Server WSDL port – The WSDL port of the AOS server. Gateway Router Service Address – The address of the gateway service which

routes the request to CRM address. AOS Services Endpoint Port – For overriding port returning in service’s WSDL. Connection Timeout – Connection timeout time in milliseconds. Reception Timeout – Reception timeout time in Milliseconds.

Mule Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Connector – Connector Configuration Wizard (Pooling Profile Tab) (Cont.)

Mule Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Connector – Connector Configuration Wizard (Pooling Profile Tab) Mule Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Connector configuration’s pooling profile

tab contains following properties – Use default connection pool config – This radio button is used enable default connection pooling setting of this connector. Define connection pool config – Radio button used to create custom connection pooling settings.

Max active – Property which define how many connections can be there in connection pool. Max idle – Defines maximum number of connections that can be idle. Initialization policy – Defines how to initialize new connections. Exhausted action – Defines how to release a connection after usage. Max wait – Maximum time to wait for a new connection to be available. Min eviction time – Minimum amount of time a connection can sit idle for.

Mule Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Connector – Connector Configuration Wizard (Pooling Profile Tab) (Cont.)

Mule Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Connector – Connector Configuration Wizard (Pooling Profile Tab) The Reconnection tab contains following properties –

Do not use a Reconnection Strategy – This is the default radio button which specifies do not try to reconnect if there is error connecting to the web address URL. Standard Reconnection – Use this radio button to enable a standard reconnection strategy.

Frequency (ms) – The frequency time in milliseconds after which the AJAX connector will try to access the web address URL.

Reconnect Attempts – This tells how many times the AJAX connector will try to connect to web address URL.

Reconnector Forever – Check this box if there is need to make AJAX connector connect to web address URL until there is a successful connection with it.

Custom Reconnection – Use this radio button to create a custom Reconnection strategy. Class – The java class which will come in action after a failed connection attempt. Run the connection in a separated thread – Check this box if there is need to use this custom

reconnection operation in separate thread.

Mule Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Connector – Configuration Wizard (Notes Tab) Notes Tab is used to add special notes to Mule Microsoft Dynamics AX

2012 Connector.

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