Working with data

Flex provides many built-in components that make it easy for you to work with data.

Flex has built-in components that help you:

• Model data for use in Flex Applications. You can define a data model in an MXML tag, ActionScript function, or an ActionScript class.
• Use Data Binding between a data model and  UI component properties which enables changes to the source to be automatically reflected in the destination.
• Validate data with built in functions that validate things like email addresses, credit card numbers, zip codes, and phone numbers or build your own validators.
• Format data using Flex's Formatter class. Formatters perform a one-way conversion of raw data to a formatted string and are useful in handling user input.
• Flex Data Wizards can help you get started quickly with a PHP/.NET/Java database by automatically generating code you can use on your server.
• E4X notation makes accessing XML data similar to accessing internal ActionScript objects using dot notation and other familiar techniques.
• Flex (and Flash) can save local data on a user's machine via local connections and shared objects.