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Summary of this Resource:
So you have heard that Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 has built-in support for web services. Great! But is this unconditionally true? Are all web services now supported in Flash? Are there exceptions? Workarounds? What if the server on which the web service is hosted doesn't have a policy file?
have answers for you. For two whole weeks I did nothing but scour the web for different kinds of web services to see how Flash would handle them. In this article I will discuss most of my findings. In light of the fact that there are all kinds of different web services out there, I will also do a quick comparison of the advantages of the WebServiceConnector component, the WebService classes, and Macromedia Flash Remoting. For a more detailed comparison, please refer to Choosing Between XML, Web Services, and Remoting for Rich Internet Applications by Steven Webster. Finally, I am going to walk you through the creation of a generic web service proxy in PHP to solve the cross-domain problem. This proxy will let you hook up to any SOAP web service, with or without a policy file. Let's do it! |
