Actually, I'm not sure that's true. I don't believe the object really exists on the server side. When I call methods on my local object, it looks like SOAP::Lite is sending the state of the object via XML each time, and the server then bless's that object, and calls the method on it. Also, you can run a SOAP::Lite server via a simple CGI transport. If you are running CGI with Apache, those "servers" are all running in different processes. How could it maintain a persistent object across multiple processes? -Mike