how to build a remote file explorer in a flex app

I'd like my users to be able to easily navigate their files, which live on my server. Is there an obvious / built in way to build t开发者_如何学编程he front end for this in Flex? My ideal scenario would be to have something that looks like the local file browser - but I'm pretty sure that's not an option (although I'd love to be wrong). Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

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Edited: sorry if this sounds to broad. Let me try to make it a bit more specific: assume all the back-end stuff is taken care of and I have all the data on my local machine. Are there any good flex components to easily navigate a list of files in a way that is familiar to users? A tree structure is a good idea. A datagrid may also work. I was wondering if there examples of something more out there. thanks!

As long as you have services exposing the file system tree, there shouldn't be any problem. You can use the Tree component in Flex (probably with a ITreeDataDescriptor) to render the file system structure

While the tree component is fine, you can just create your own item renderers and use flash.net.socket

Start here: http://ted.onflash.org/2007/05/flexftp-ftp-client-in-flex-using.php

view source and all that fun stuff.