session management in web services?

Question

is it possible to manage sessions in web-services? if yes, how to manage session in it? is it similar to sessions we maintain in JSP or PHP? where does the info about the session will be stored, Client or Server?

Answer 1

It's possible to use the Session object in .NET inside of a webservice...however I'd say it is bad practice. Typically speaking a webservice isn't passed data this way and the data in the service doesn't persist between calls.