Weather webservice - bgx:components

Weather Webservice Example

This is an example to show Flash's capability to create powerful visualizations for complex data. It uses data supplied by the public CapeScience GlobalWeather webservice to display weather data for any airport around the world.

It also shows how to use a proxy ASP.NET webservice that can be created in little time to manage Flash security restrictions that prevent accessing data on domains other that the domain that hosts the Flash file.

Further it contains an example of how to use the proxy Webservice to create HTML output using ASP.NET.

The generic version of the proxy Webservice file and the HTML output example are freely available for download.

Links

View the Flash visualization

Read an interview I gave CapeScience regarding this Flash client.

Please use the menu on the left for further details.

Background : Webservices

Webservices are a technology that allows data exchange throughout the web using standardized mechanisms.

Data can be accessed and sent between applications and/or servers regardless of the technology they use. Using the standard protocol they will always understand each other.

E.g. for this example data is accessed from a public webservice provided by CapeScience by another webservice that I created for my own server.

I use this proxy web service to make the data available for my Flash visualization. But others have used it to create different kind of applications that want to use the same data.