Date: Apr. 29, 2002
Link: http://www.devx.com/webdev/articles/ib100201/ib100201-1.asp
Source Author or Organization: Ian Bogost, Developers Exchange (DevX)

This tutorial shows Flash developers how to make Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) calls from Flash to build an interactive thin client Web application. After the lessons, the student will have a calculator application that uses SOAP to make Remote Procedure Calls over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to server-side code, which receives and sends XML-formatted data and performs the actual calculations.

The lessons and sample code walk the user through creating an Active Server Pages (ASP) listener to handle SOAP requests and responses, making an interface for the client, building the server-side component and implementing SOAP messaging using Revolution SOAP from Media Revolution, a free Flash SOAP component that simplifies SOAP messaging from Flash.

Following this tutorial requires access to a Windows NT/2000 server running Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft SOAP Toolkit 2.0 SP2, Flash 5 or later, Microsoft Visual Basic and Revolution SOAP.