Tibco EMS Adapter in BizTalk 2006 R2

According to the documentation, BizTalk R2 supports Tibco EMS adapter v4.2. I have a customer that is wondering if this adapter will work with v4.1 or v4.4. If not, when can I expect an adapter that will work with a higher version (> 4.2)? Also, I have read that the WCF ASDK (Adapter SDK) can be utilized to build your own adapters. Is this worth pursuing? What is the effort and knowledge required to write an adapter for Tibco EMS 4.4?

[492 byte] By [MonishNagisetty] at [2008-2-22]
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Monish:

The Tibco Adapter in BizTalk R2 supports the same versions of Tibco that BizTalk Server 2004 did. This may work with v4.4 if Tibco guarantees backward compatibility.

The WCF LOB ASDK is recommended for building adapters to LOB systems that have large/dynamic metadata. Tibco EMS is more like a transport and hence, you could build a WCF channel for the same and consume it via the WCF Adapter.

Thanks,

Sriram.

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