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Mar 21Kayak Search AS3 API Beta 1 Now Available

Download the SWC A few days ago, I released the ColdFusion version of my Kayak Search API. Well, as the night follows day, along comes the AS3 version for use in your Flex applications. It provides much of the same functionality as the CF version, but does not have any facilities for searching airport codes, cities, or airline codes. I must say, that it was interesting building this library because there are some subtle differences to doing something in CF then porting it to AS3. I really like the way the AS3 version came together, because the event driven model flows a bit better, in my mind. If you want to mashup the AS3 version and the ColdFusion version, I have done something to make it very easy to do. The AS3 value objects are a direct port from the CFC value objects. So you could, in theory, write a remoting call to the ColdFusion server in your Flex code that talks to a remoting facade in the ColdFusion code. This would give you the same functionality, but the data calls and processing are done on the server. It's your choice. The source code for this is available on my Google Code Site. You will also find a flight search sample and a hotel search sample on there in a separate project called "KayakSamples". Kayak API spec Happy Searching. p.s. ASDocs are coming.... Download the SWC