1 - Nice - do you have a screenshot / demo to share?

So far I have stuck to using the standard HTTP / XML calls from within Flex to Notes agents, though I know at some point I will have to start consuming web services so thanks for the heads up.

2 - If you happen to be at DNUG in the beginning of June (I know you would be at ILUG, Bill - but others thinking about FLEX might..), make sure to check out the session about it. A leading German developer is giving loads of do's and don'ts (in English), which might give you a great headstart.

3 - Obviously the beers and fine food provided my Mr Smillie has lubricated the thinking process........

4 - Ah - yes - praise be to LotusBeer again!

Not near the screenshot stage. Web services themselves are very easy (aside from the single root object limitation), and things like parsing and creating XML is very simple.

The debugger is excellent. For instance. I'm actually using Eclipse+Flex on the Mac, and using Safari to debug. I could do all of that on a windows machine, or on a Linux machine.

---* Bill

5 - Any recommendation of books/sites/etc to start learning Flex?

6 - If anyone's interested I am writing an article for the View - Leveraging Adobe Flex and Domino to build 801 sidebar widgets.

As for book recommendations: I brought Adobe Flex 3 - Training from the source, which is ok for an introduction but I tend to use Flex Solutions - { Link } if I need a bit more of a reference.

7 - "its web service consumer can only deal with Web Services that have a single root element (and not half-a-dozen as I had)"

Do you mean the message body element can only have a single child element? Odd.

8 - Ah - no. I mean that there can only be on top level return item on the web service. In my case, that item then contains at least four complex structures, of which one of those contains an array of class elements.

So it can get stupidly complex very quickly. Just have one 'thing' at the top level, really.


In terms of Books, I do like 'Flex for Developers' Jacobs/FreindsOfEd - its first chapter solved about 12 flex 'gotcha's for me.

On saying that, I also have 'Flex Solutions (Casario/Friends of Ed), Actionscript 3.0 cookbook (O'Really), and ActionScrip 3.0 Bible/Wiley. The latter is good at digging you out of *serious* trouble.

I tend to buy a lot of books.

---* Bill

9 - I here,

I recently join a openntf project to create some Domino component to flex.

You can see a demo here ({ Link } ) for the view component, there is a flat view and a categorized view.
The code is under the Cecill-C licence (French LGPL licence).
Is here:
{ Link }

If the work can help someone, I will continue to put him in the web.