>Actually, I think MTS is ready for prime time. Stateless objects can be challenging to work with, but they provide great benifits in scalability.

>Those challenges can be very expensive in terms of development time. It means designing an entirely new framework for MTS objects. Just when we got used to properties instead of variables MTS essentially robs us from using properties. A challenge indeed!

Well if you are used to properties MTS has somthing called the 'property data manager'. I do not know the details, I'm working on that right now. But it will give us properties and somewhat of a state within MTS if we realy need it.