Hi Kevin,

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>I have a business object and when I call the Save method it returns the primary key so that the front-end can update the client-side cursor.
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>However, if the Save fails because of business rule violation, how can I handle this? I was thinking of putting a STATUS property that gets updated after each Save, but I was under the impression that BO's should be stateless, and this would break that rule.
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>Can I have some suggestions on this?
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Like Craig suggested, I return a negative value in a similar situation. If you want to return more information, like the reason the save failed, you could pass in a parameter by reference (ie. @lcStatus) and set it inside the BO. Passing by reference isn't my favorite option, but it keeps the object stateless and should work with Web Services as well.