With Flex, I was scraching head for few days to achive (a) How to use DataGrid to add, edit and delete records (b) How to move XML data into ArrayCollection. Now, here is the solution.... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" backgroundAlpha="0" creationComplete="srv.send()"> <mx:Script> import mx.collections.ArrayCollection; import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent; import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent; [Bindable] public var employees:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection(); private var xmldata:XML; private function faultHandler(event:FaultEvent):void{ mx.controls.Alert.show(event.fault.message,"Error in getting result"); } private function resultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void{ xmldata = new XML(event.result); // Convert XML to ArrayCollection for each(var s:XML in xmldata.employee){ ...