Everything You Need to Know about BDC

I am still waiting for the article to finish all its 8 parts on SharePoint Magazine... meanwhile I found, There are two approaches for working with BDC: creating the XML schemas manually or employing SharePoint's Object Model to programmatically interact with the LOB system.

This is one of the good article I found on SharePoint Magazine. This article containing 8 parts. I am listing 5 out of 8 as others are still not published.

Part 1, BDC Technical Architecture
Part 2, Application Definition File (ADF) and its Development
Part 3, Developing an ADF to Connect to Web Services
Part 4, Using BDC Web Parts to Consume BDC Data and Embedding BDC Data in Lists
Part 5, configure Enterprise Search to crawl BDC data.
Part 6, importing User Profiles from BDC
Part 7, BDC Object Model