I posted earlier regarding this isse here.
Approximately 7-8 months ago, John Dowdell, was kind enough to at least respond regarding the issue .
The best part of his response was, "This documentation is in the final review stages and should be on the website towards mid-summer. My apologies for not knowing this context previously, but that's the scoop -- web services weren't easy-peasy out-of-the-box with CS3, but they should be so once again soon, once we generalize the component-creation process. Expect docs up on the website soon."
I could live with that, summer, no big deal however Summer '07 has come and gone and we are now moving towards Spring '08 without any mention from Adobe about an update to include Web Service support of some kind in Flash CS3.
Dissapointed to say the least.
We as flash developers are not without hope thanks entirely to the Adobe Flash/Flex community as a whole. There are now a few possible solutions to get Web Services to come through to the Flash CS3 authoring environment:
Wellconsidered has built a Flash CS3 Component that you can include in your library and access services much like the old As2 component, very easy to use however it has not been fully tested as stated by the author.
Sander Wichers has developed a method by which you can get compiled Flex libraries accessible from your flash library, very interesting workaround and worth the read.
RIA Forge has a post with access to a Subervsion Library which I have not tried out yet.
Carlo Alducente has developed a class as well.
My suggestion is to try all the methods above to see what works and what doesn't.
Again, thanks to all the developers who still recoginize the need for Web Services access in Flash as well as Flex.
It would be nice to hear from Adobe on the continued intention and or the abandonement on this issue.
Cheers,
Des
