Jan 8, 2008 • Adobe Flex is not well documented (well, let’s say information is hard to find). Even more so for the charting component for Flex Builder 2. Hereby a tutorial where we set up a column chart, import XML data and format the chart.

Sep 9, 2007 • If you need to fetch data within Flash which resides on another domain, you will find out it will not work once you test it outside Flash.exe. XML.load(), LoadVars() and sendAndLoad() will return false because of cross-domain security issues.

Where the cross-domain file did not do any good, I found another solution to fetch cross-domain XML data. The so-called 'shim' file.