Web Services - whats the scoop?

Question

I've moved from Flash MX 2004 to Flash CS3 and I'm a bit
confused on the web services support in Flash CS3. To me it looks
like if I want to use web services as they were in MX 2004 I need
to set my project to ActionScript 2.0 and use the older
libraries/components - I'd really prefer to leave my project at
ActionScript 3.0 though for numerous reasons that I won't get into
here.

This page here:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00003698.html
- suggests that ActionScript 2.0 is where the web services
support is at, in the older libraries. However when I look at some
Flex examples:

http://blog.shrefler.net/?p=5
- I find out it's able to make web service calls, and correct
me if I'm wrong but isn't Flex 2 by default set to ActionScript
3.0? Or is what's happening here that they their Flex project to
ActionScript 2.0 to call the web service like in Flash? I don't use
Flex 2 so I can't be sure.

I'd really like to know what the scoop is to call web
services from a Flash project using ActionScript 3.0. I've ordered
the ActionScript 3 Cookbook as well as pre-ordered Colin Moock's
new ActionScript 3 book but they haven't arrived yet and I really
need to get this figured out.

Thanks for any help.

Anonymous · Answer

In doing some digging around I stumbled upon this:
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/archive/index.php3/t-139900.html

- basically the guy is saying you can use the Flex SDK and point the Flash CS3 classpath to it. I haven't tried it yet but if it works I'm wondering why then these classes from the Flex SDK weren't just packaged with Flash CS3 as well?

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