Can you use a XML-RPC data source for Adobe Flex applications?

Question

Can an XML-RPC call be made and the resulting XML response be utilized by Adobe's Flex?

Would Flex be better served by a non-XML response and if so what format?

Answer 1

You could take a look at the as3-rpclib project if you want to use XML-RPC.

The Flex standard libraries have SOAP support (in mx.rpc.soap) so that's an alternative as well. The most effective protocol, though, is AMF, support for which is also included with Flex (see mx.rpc.remoting.RemoteObject) (Wikipedia has links to some server-side AMF libraries).