Hey Frans/All,

I've seen you refer to building applications that use webservices with messaging a few times in the past few weeks. Can you explain what you mean by this, or post a couple links to articles that explain this?

Do you not recommend passing entities across tiers via webservices?

Thanks for any info.

What Frans meant is that Webservices is/was built for messaging. i.e it's better to pass messages rather than objects.

He favored remoting if you want to pass objects(entities).

P.S. I used Webservices to pass LLBLGen entities, I didn't face performance issues, since my applications run in a LAN.

This is the 'gateway' to web servers 'arcticles' http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/webservices/understanding/default.aspx

and remoting http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/remoting/default.aspx

However, this paper should answer quite a few questions that you have poses and more hopefully http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/soadesign.asp