>>>Recently, there has been several threads on maintaining the state of a Web Service. [...] SOAP 3 provides a greater flexibility in achieving that task. [...]
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>>[...] Are you talking about SOAP Toolkit 3.0?
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>Yes, MS is presently in Beta right now. [...]

If I got it right, the state info is passed outside the SOAP message itself. If this is so, do you thing this is a commendable approach?