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| title: Loading External Data |
| description: Dynamic sites and real-time updates lead to good user experiences |
| permalink: /working-with-data/loading-external-data |
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| # Loading External Data |
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| Dynamic sites and real-time updates lead to good user experiences |
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| Unless you are building a brochure-style website that makes a statement and provides contact information, you are going to be working with _data_. You will get some of that data from your site or application users, but you will probably also get a lot from outside your app or website. |
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| [Apache Royale](https://royale.apache.org/) provides reliable, fast, and secure ways to get data from remote sources, and also to send data. |
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| The following data types have built-in support: |
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| * Raw Strings |
| * JSON |
| * [Binary](https://royale.apache.org/asdoc/#!org.apache.royale.utils/BinaryData) |
| * [XML](features/as3/xml) |
| * [AMF](working-with-data/loading-external-data/amf) |
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| AMF is supported using either of: |
| * [LocalSharedObject](working-with-data/loading-external-data/localsharedobject) |
| * [RemoteObject](working-with-data/loading-external-data/remoteobject) |
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| Classes which can be used for loading external data include: |
| * [HTTPService](working-with-data/loading-external-data/httpservice) |
| * [URLBinaryLoader](https://royale.apache.org/asdoc/#!org.apache.royale.net/URLBinaryLoader) for loading of any kind of binary data |
| * HttpRequestTask |
| * HttpDownloadTask |
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| and others |
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