Flex 2 supports both RPC and doc-literal web services. If you're interested in the difference, I found an article on the IBM developer works site to be very helpful (http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-whichwsdl/). Using xmethods.net I found a simple document-literal web service that, given a URL it will return all of the hyperlinks contained in the HTML document. I then went ahead a built a simple Flex client that consumes the web service.

I've been thinking about collaborative work spaces a lot lately. One common collaboration need is for a group of people to add notes as they view an application. The sample below is an extremely basic example of adding a note taking functionality to a basic Flex UI. You can go a lot of places with this kind of sample. For example, you could have notes be saved 'off-line' in a database using messaging and then have them populate every time the application is opened.

One issue when building Flex 2 application is how do you leverage the Data Service features of FES when your data store is updated with a process other then a Flex client. The best way to accomplish this today is to use JMS to listen for an broadcast a change notification to all Flex clients to update their data. In this configuration, each Flex client listen to a JMS queue (using a message consumer) and call fill() when you receive a message that the queue is updated.

So wow, am I excited about what is going on over at Labs (http://labs.macromedia.com). The public Flex 2 beta is awesome for so many reasons -- one of which being the fact that I can continue to blog about all of the cool Flex 2 stuff we learn here in public. As many people have noted Flex 2 has an upgraded RemoteObject (hereafter called RO) service which includes an upgrade of the AMF protocol to AMF3 -- previous versions of Flex RO use AMF0 which was originally available in Flash Remoting.

Hello! After a long hiatus, I have returned to the Flex blog-o-sphere. I won't torture anyone with the long story where I go MaD; er, I mean I went and worked in Adobe's Mobile and Device division. Suffice it to say I have enough frequent flyer miles to last for a while. Nevertheless, I'm back now, working on Flex 2. I've been working on some applications and I wanted to post some information you might find useful.