Adobe Senior Technology Evangelist Duane Nickull works with the new web services wizards in Flash Builder 4, showing how to bind a web service to a visual component.
Specifically, this video demonstrates how Flash Builder can easily hook up to even a complex web service using SOAP. The service demoed is a collection of countries and population statistics.
The Flash Builder application begins with a comboBox with a dataProvider created from the getCountries() function of the service. This will populate the comboBox with the available countries from the web service. All of this is done without writing a single line of code.
Duane then continues to create a details form that retrieves the population of the selected country from the comboBox. Even at this point, the ActionScript 3.0 required is minimal. The only functions generated are a creationComplete and changeHandler that retrieve data from the service and listen for changes in the comboBox selection and change the data in the form.
Overall, the main idea behind this video is to demonstrate how simple it is to retrieve data from even a complex service. Definitely a major improvement in productivity for anyone trying to create a dynamic application.
Adobes Tom Lane walks you through the mechanics of connecting a Flex application to a PHP data service with Flash Builder 4.
This is the second part of a two part series on creating a service using Flash Builder and a PHP server. In this video, Tom shows viewers how to
In order to grasp the concepts in both videos, a moderate understanding coding is recommended.
To watch the first video, click here.
Senior Computer Scientist Tom Lane gives an overview of the code for a PHP function in Flex, and then highlights the functionality of the data services panel.
This is the first part of a two part series on creating a service using Flash Builder and PHP. In this video, Tom shows viewers how to
Overall, my observations have led me to believe that Flash Builder is becoming more like Microsoft Visual Studio with each iteration, especially in this version.
You can view part 2 of the video by clicking here.
