Chapter 25. Web Services and Flash
IN THIS CHAPTER
- What Is a Web Service?
- Why Use Web Services?
- Creating a Web Service
- Consuming Web Services with Flash
- Flash Remoting
- The Web Services Panel
- The WebServiceConnector Component
- Data Binding
- Consuming Outside Web Services
- Absorbing the Amazon Web Service
So far, we have been moving data with name/value pairs, static XML documents, or with server-side programming and LoadVars. This chapter will change all that by opening your eyes to the world of web services.We will go over what web services are and why you use them, as well as how to create them and how to tie into them using Flash 8. We will finish up by creating an application to search the web for DVDs using the Amazon.com API.