That solves it -- many thanks mark_in_fl (and seth_hodgsonfor replying). Actually I can put my classes either in theclasspath of the flex webapp or the classpath of the samples webapp and everything workslike a charm... which suggests either that these two paths arehard-coded somewhere or (more like...

Hi -- thanks for the quick reply!I agree that that seems to be the gist of the error message.But the thing is, my classes are in the "classes" folder of my app's WEB-INF, and theyare definitely in the server classpath -- I've tested this bywriting a simple servlet that imports and usescom.mycompany....

I've just started working with flex (and flex data services)and have been experimenting with directly calling the createItemmethod (extending AbstractAssembler) as a way of poking data into aserver-side DB. It's probable I'm just not using the flexmethodology correctly, but every time I try to run m...