User Guide

Migrating existing applications to Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0 25
3. In the ActionScript code in the Actions panel, change #include statements to import
statements:
// Old API
#include "NetDebug.as"
#include "NetServices.as"
// New API
import mx.remoting.*;
import mx.rpc.*;
These two import statements will import all of the Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004
ActionScript 2.0 files. For information on importing specific Flash Remoting files, see
“Importing Flash Remoting ActionScript classes” on page 35.
4. Initialize the NetDebugger (optional) and set up the DataGrid columns.
// New API
NetDebug.initialize();
// Old and New API
grid.columnNames = ["productId", "name", "categoryId", "price"];
5. Create a gateway connection, establish a reference to a remote service, and set up a Responder
object to call for result-handling and fault-handling.
The old version of the program calls three functions to accomplish these tasks:
NetServices.setDefaultGatewayUrl() to specify the gateway URL,
NetServices.createGatewayConnection() to create the connection, and
connection.getService() to create a reference, catalogService, to the remote service.
The Flash Remoting API accomplishes all three tasks by invoking the constructor for the
Service object.
// Old API
NetServices.setDefaultGatewayUrl("http://localhost:8100/flashservices/
gateway");
connection = NetServices.createGatewayConnection();
//locate a remote service: the RemoteCatalog bean
catalogService = connection.getService("samples.remoting.RemoteCatalog",
this);
// New API
var myService:Service = new Service("http://localhost:8100/flashservices/
gateway",
new Log(Log.DEBUG),
"samples.remoting.RemoteCatalog",
null,
null);