Question

In FlexBuilder 3, there are two items under the ‘Data’ menu to import and manage web services. After importing a webservice, I can update it with the manage option. However, the webservices seems to disappear after they are imported. The manager does however recognize that a certain WSDL URL was imported and refuses to do anything with it.

How does the manager know this, and how can I make it refresh a certain WSDL URL?

Answer 1

In your src folder of the flexbuilder project you should see the generated classes. For instance, if you use the manager to generate the proxy classes for http://www.example.com you should see the folders /com/example with the generated proxy classes inside.

To consume these webservices in ActionScript use the statement:

'import com.example.*;' 

To consume the webservice in mxml include the .as file using:

<mx:Script source='yourscriptname.as'/> 

To refresh the generated proxy classes, consuming the latest WSDL, simply open the manager and select ‘update’.

Also, I found this article very useful for consuming web services.

I hope that helps, the question was kind of vague about the problem.