Flash CS3 Documentation 
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The DataSet component lets you work with data as collections of objects that can be indexed, sorted, searched, filtered, and modified.
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The DataSet component is supported only if you are working in a document that specifies Flash Player 7 or later and ActionScript 2.0 in its Publish Settings. |
The DataSet component functionality includes DataSetIterator, a set of methods for traversing and manipulating a data collection, and DeltaPacket, a set of interfaces and classes for working with updates to a data collection. In most cases, you don't use these classes and interfaces directly; you use them indirectly through methods provided by the DataSet class.
The items managed by the DataSet component are also called transfer objects. A transfer object exposes business data that resides on the server with public attributes or accessor methods for reading and writing data. The DataSet component allows developers to work with sophisticated client-side objects that mirror their server-side counterparts or, in its simplest form, a collection of anonymous objects with public attributes that represent the fields in a record of data. For details on transfer objects, see Core J2EE Patterns Transfer Object at http://java.sun.com/blueprints/corej2eepatterns/Patterns/TransferObject.html.
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