During a partial refactoring process of the Behrloo client system, one of the items on my list was the backend webservice result processing. Without going into a lot of detail how these services are wrapped, it suffices to say that somewhere in the application a couple of webservices are being initialized and utilized through the macromedia webservice classes.
You might be familiar with them, they come in several flavours, for example the WebServiceConnector and the Webservice class. Personally I don’t like to use the WebServiceConnector, mostly since the Webservice class is simple enough to use and tends to give you more control over what is happening.
Basic example
As a simple example of using this Webservice class, paste the following code onto the first frame of the timeline in a new fla document (on a sidenote, REAL applications are not written on a timeline, but for example purposes/quick proof of concepts, this will do just fine):
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