This is a set of posts documenting my experiences with utilising functionality within the Flex SDK that provides the automatic mapping of custom ActionScript classes to element definitions within an XML Schema (XSD).

1.  Part 1 – Introduction and background
2.  Part 2 – Overview of Flex’s XML Schema classes (inc example code)

Part 2 – Overview of Flex’s XML Schema classes (including example code)

This post covers how to take advantage of these classes (including example code) – as at the time of writing there doesn’t seem to be any discussion of these features by Adobe or the community at large. I’ll also list a few caveats we have come across in using these classes.

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This is a set of posts documenting my experiences with utilising functionality within the Flex SDK that provides the automatic mapping of custom ActionScript classes to element definitions within an XML Schema (XSD).

1.  Part 1 – Introduction and background
2.  Part 2 – Overview of Flex’s XML Schema classes (inc example code)

Part 1 – Introduction and background

This post explains some reasons on why the automated mapping of ActionScript classes to XML Schema definitions can be a better alternative to other data integration options available to Flex (in certain circumstances).

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