Flex 3 and Form submits

I am using a Flex form to gather information that is
submitted to a Cold Fusion function page via HTTPService.
I can successfully gather, submit and insert the data with no
problems.
What is the best way to provide feedback from my CF page to
my Flex app? I have tried many examples of code found online and
with no success.
Are there any resources, books etc that have a good and
working example of using Flex/Cold Fusion via HTTPService that
ya'll can recommend?
Thank you.

I'd return XML like this:
<result>
<general>
<success>false</success>
<errorCode>E1235</errorCode >
<reason>Duplicate key 'attributeName' in table
'emptable'</reason >
<general>
<data>
</data>
</result>
<general> describes the overall execution state, while
<data> may contain actual data to be returned.

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