Hi, I'm working with JBoss 4.0.5 and the embedded JBoss Web Service support. I have to expose as web services some functionalities of an existing J2EE application with stateful session management, i.e. I've a javax.ejb.Handle object which references my session and this handle must be passed to every method of the business logic EJBs. Questions: - how can I expose this Handle object to a web service client? javax.ejb.Handle is not supported by JAX-RPC so I was considering serializing this object (e.g. base64 encoding). Is there any better method? - I serialized my handle object to a file and it's less then 400 bytes: is that the average size of a serialized JBoss javax.ejb.Handle? - is there any standard, implemented by JBoss 4.0.5, for a web service conversation? I'd like to have my web service client making the following calls: perform login request one or more service (each one once or more times) perform logout Maybe I'm wrong but I think that my model doesn't fit in BPEL (I can't know in advance which and how many services a client will call between login() and logout())... Any suggestion? Thanks in advance, Andrea View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4010026#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...