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CHAPTER 23
Data Integration: Overview
(Flash Professional Only)
The following tutorials illustrate several ways to use data binding and the
data components in Macromedia Flash Professional 8. Many of the
tutorials use public web services and therefore require that you have an
Internet connection. In addition, the tutorials won’t work in a browser
because of sandbox restrictions, but they will work in the Flash authoring
environment or Flash Player.
■ Data Integration: Using the Macromedia Tips Web Service (Flash
Professional Only)
■ Data Integration: Using XML for a Timesheet (Flash Professional
Only)
■ Data Integration: Using XUpdate to Update the Timesheet (Flash
Professional Only)
These tutorials are working models that illustrate how to use the data
components (XMLConnector, WebServices Connector, RDMBSResolver
and XUpdateResolver) with data binding in Flash Professional 8. They are
not intended to be production-ready applications.
If you have trouble downloading or decompressing the files, see TechNote
13686 at www.macromedia.com/support/general/ts/documents/
downfiles.htm.
NOTE
To complete the timesheet tutorials, you must download the file data.xml.
NOTE
The use of public web services in these tutorials does not imply that you
should use them for real-world applications. In fact, Macromedia does not
recommend using public web services directly from within any client-side
application. For more information, see “Applications and Web Services”
in the “Data Integration” chapter in Using Flash (in Flash, select Help >
Using Flash).