[flexcoders] Re: Looking for a workaround for HTTPService limitations

2007-02-14 Thread Paul DeCoursey
I can say yes, we experienced the same problem. We had already built a large number of REST based Services to support of clients and then when we got to the Flex Client we found that it could not support them. Which led us to migrate what we needed to SOAP based services. It was a pain, but I

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Looking for a workaround for HTTPService limitations

2007-02-14 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 14 Feb 2007, Paul DeCoursey wrote: a large number of REST based Services to support of clients and then when we got to the Flex Client we found that it could not support them. Does REST not imply GET/POST ? In any case, as has been pointed out, Flex 2 certainly does support other

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Looking for a workaround for HTTPService limitations

2007-02-14 Thread Paul J DeCoursey
Tom Chiverton wrote: On Wednesday 14 Feb 2007, Paul DeCoursey wrote: a large number of REST based Services to support of clients and then when we got to the Flex Client we found that it could not support them. Does REST not imply GET/POST ? In any case, as has been pointed out,

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Looking for a workaround for HTTPService limitations

2007-02-14 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Wednesday 14 Feb 2007, Paul J DeCoursey wrote: Indeed, and since we had heavy use of DELETE and PUT we had to make the determination of what was easier and more cost effective. We choose SOAP because Flex has good SOAP support. We avoided implementing DELETE and PUT because we don't have

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Looking for a workaround for HTTPService limitations

2007-02-14 Thread Paul J DeCoursey
Tom Chiverton wrote: On Wednesday 14 Feb 2007, Paul J DeCoursey wrote: Indeed, and since we had heavy use of DELETE and PUT we had to make the determination of what was easier and more cost effective. We choose SOAP because Flex has good SOAP support. We avoided implementing DELETE and

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Looking for a workaround for HTTPService limitations

2007-02-14 Thread Marcel Schepers
Thank you very much for the wish list, http://adobe.com/go/wish. I've already formulated the wish for full proxyless HTTP support. Thank you also for the socket suggestion. I have been serious with Java since 1.1 but fairly green with ActionScript. (I working on chapter 17 of the Training from