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Flex 3 with Java

The best way to test what you have learned so far is to build something using it. In this chapter, we will build a small but complete application using the concepts that we have learned so far. We will use a combination of Flex, ActionScript, and Java technologies and marry them together to build an e-commerce application. The application we are going to build is called Online Book Store. This Online Book Store provides an easy way to browse, search, and shop for books online. You have seen many Flex and Java communication examples using HTTPService, RemoteObject
, or WebService
RPC services. In this tutorial, we will use HTTPService
to communicate with JSP which generates and returns dynamic XML data from a database table. In the real world, you might not use JSP to write business logic. But to keep things simple, we will use JSP in this chapter.
The general anatomy of the application is as shown here:
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