You can't do that with SOAP. You will have to pass the object back to the server if you want to modify it.

Think about it. Looks like you need a COM/DCOM/CORBA solution, because SOAP don't do that. It's Simple Object Access PROTOCOL, not PERSISTANCE. It IS procedural RPC, just made easier.

Have you looked into SPOPS yet?

jeffa

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