>>Recently, there has been several threads on maintaining the state of a Web Service. I would like to mention that I wrote a 2nd article on that topic in our July issue of the magazine. SOAP 3 provides a greater flexibility in achieving that task. [...]
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>Sorry, I'm a bit confused, here, regarding SOAP 3. Are you talking about SOAP Toolkit 3.0?

Yes, MS is presently in Beta right now. That is public. So, anyone can start to play with it. The last I know is that this is suppose to be release at the end of July or around that.