Web Service and Flash 5

I have been asked to write my first web service to extract a number of records from an access database.

Creating a web service which extracts records isn't a problem but if the client application is a flash site then how can it make use of the dataset from the web service.

Does Flash support .net ?Yes, but not in the way you want to use it. .Net can render out OBJECT tags to a client browser, in which flash directives for the Flash plugin live. But, you don't want that. You want to get information from a .Net webservice (could be a Java webservice).

To do that, you need to use SOAP.

Flash supports XML documents though and that's all that is needed to communicate with a SOAP protocol like a .Net webservice.
http://www.flash-db.com/Translate/TranslateClient.php?page=1