[osflash] WSDL to ActionScript

[Aral Balkan]

Personally, I don't see the use of consuming web services on the  
client. First off, you cannot have any sort of hidden information in  
there so that rules out using this for commercial web services where  
you have a secret key/developer key/etc. unless you want the world to  
know it and use up your quotas. If you're not going to use it for  
third-party services, then you're probably going to use it to talk to  
your application server. In which case, why are you using a heavy  
protocol like SOAP when you could be using Remoting, REST or even  
good-ol' fashioned variable-encoded strings over HTTP? If you are  
using third-party web services, you should really be consuming them  
on the server side and implementing security, redundancy, etc. there.

The only use I see for consuming web services directly from the  
client is if you're using a completely open third-party web service.  
I think there are a few stock ticker services that are usually used  
to show off client-side web services in Flash that fit the bill!

Aral

On 3 Nov 2006, at 19:40, David Holroyd wrote:

> Is anyone interested in making a wsdl2as tool (like the Apache AXIS
> WSDL2Java tool)?
>
> Here's a start:
>
>   http://osflash.org/wsdl2as
>
> <snip>