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About Flex data bindings 153
A web service is a software system designed to support machine-to-machine interaction over a
network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format called WSDL. Other
systems interact with the web service in a manner prescribed by its description.
An HTTP service is nothing more than an HTTP request to a URL. The primary purpose of
HTTP services is to retrieve XML data from an external source.
A remote object is a Java object in the Flex applications classpath.
Related topics
“Working with Flex data services” on page 136
“Using Data Services” in Developing Flex Applications Help
“Working with web services” in Developing Flex Applications Help
“Working with remote object services” in Developing Flex Applications Help