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To provide data to your application, Adobe Flex includes components designed specifically for interacting with web services, HTTP servers, or remote object services (Java objects). These components are called remote procedure call (RPC) service components.
In this lesson, you create a simple reporting application for a blog aggregator that lists the most popular posts in the last 30 days. You decide to let the users determine the number of posts to list. You use an RPC service component called WebService to submit the user's selection and retrieve the data from a SOAP-based web service provided by the blog aggregator site, and then you display the data in a DataGrid control.
In this lesson, you'll complete the following tasks:
Flex 2.01
